I need an exact list (a cut and paste of the apt-get error). I'll ask for the green light to inestigate SL4. Lp -- Louis Poncet Where: Bat28-R-003 CERN CH-1211 Geneve 23 Mail : [log in to unmask] Phone: +41(0)227.674.231 LAL / IN2P3 / CNRS / CERN Problem >> RTFM then google it ! On 10 mai 05, at 19:12, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Steve Traylen wrote: > >> It would interesting if you could post a list of the hard RPM >> dependency >> errors you hit. My suspicion would be that most of them of not needed >> anyway. The likelihood is that the LCG code stands a very good chance >> of just working as is on SL4. >> > > Unfortunately it was urgent to succesfully install LCG on these > nodes, so yesterday we tried SL4 and today we reinstalled SL3. > > However I can say for sure that the problems didn't seem that > important: > 1) Many problems occured because we had version 0.8.3 (example) of > a library instead of 0.6.x that a package on the SL3 LCG repository > wanted. This should in most cases be fixed by relaxing the version > dependendency in the RPMs. > 2) Some other problems occured because the packages needed were not > found. In one case that I looked at, it was a simple change of > name of the package that prevented apt from finding it. > > If you think the port of the packages is easy it would be > interesting to make public an SL4 LCG repository to let us test it. > > Dimitris >