Re: Big problems with scientifc use of amd64
On 6/17/10, Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello:
> I am at amd64 lenny for scientific computation (i.e. no x-system) and
> i386 squeeze for the desktop with graphics.
>
> For lenny, yesterday I needed MPICH2 instead of openmpi already
> installed. No deb package for lenny, only for squeeze. I compiled
> MPICH2 for lenny.
There is a place that builds backports like that for you. Also Ubuntu
has them listed by default for you, for debian you have to go look for
them, and I am not sure that you have as much for amd64 as for i386 in
debian.
>
> However, the parallelized package that requires support from MPICH2
> requests python2.6, which is unavailable in lenny. Installing that
> from squeeze, even with apt-pinning is too risky for me, and I find
> too difficult to compile python.
why ?
>There is no technical help in my
> institution.
get it the modern way online, just let people know when you are stuck,
but first search for your problem already asked specifically.
>
> One can suggest: move to squeeze for scientific computation. Not a
> solution: the packages for chemical computation are not updated
> frequently, particularly non-commercial ones. Key packages for me do
> not run on squeeze, only on stable.
>
> When such problems arise, I am tempted to inquire if there is another
> distribution of linux that overcomes such problems. Is there one?
>
> Thanks
> francesco pietra
>
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