Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

Well Ubuntu is based on Debian, so there is at least a good chance a
package for ubuntu will work on Debian.

Not on wheezy, because of glibc versions, perhaps on testing. I could install amd64 testing on the desktop (not on servers), which could also solve the problem of grub on both disks of raid0. Does the new installer ask for that option, install grub on both disks? That was not the case some time ago and getting grub on both disks was something that defeated me.

I made it know to the maintainers at the center that I was used to stable software for scientific use, and to originals, not derivatives. But these are my personal views, clearly not much shared.

Thanks
francesco pietra

francesco@tya64:~/tmp$ ls
RCM_linux2_64bit_Ubuntu_12.04
francesco@tya64:~/tmp$ ./RCM_linux2_64bit_Ubuntu_12.04
Error loading Python lib '/tmp/_MEIzFrUEs/libpython2.7.so.1.0': /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /tmp/_MEIzFrUEs/libpython2.7.so.1.0)
Segmentation fault
francesco@tya64:~/tmp$ libc.so.6 --version
bash: libc.so.6: command not found
francesco@tya64:~/tmp$ locate libc.so.6
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
francesco@tya64:~/tmp$ /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
GNU C Library (Debian EGLIBC 2.13-38) stable release version 2.13, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.7.
Compiled on a Linux 3.2.35 system on 2012-12-30.
Available extensions:
    crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
    GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
    Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
    BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>.
francesco@tya64:~/tmp$

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >
> > Really the only difference between distributions is their packaging
> > system, their support infrastructure, their release schedule/policy, and
> > how up to date the software is and what software they offer packages for.
>
>

> Thanks.
> Now my project at the Italian supercomputer center is going to production.
> I had no problems with RedHat as far as number crunching is concerned. Now,
> however, I need to access their Remote Visualization service to deal - also
> on the X server - with large files. To this end, I need to download
> software compatible with Debian amd64. The variety of graphic and
> non-graphic tools that I use is very large. Their 64 bit Linux list
> (lacking any GNU Linux for either 64 or 32 bit)
>
> RCM_darwin
> RCM ubuntu 12.04
> RCM RHL 5.6
> RCM openSUSE 11.4 and 12.2
>
> I would appreciate advice as to which RCM will likely work for me. I heard
> about ubuntu but, to avoid being flooded by messages, i put it in the spam.
> The advice I can even from the center is very limited as they don't know
> what I have.

Well Ubuntu is based on Debian, so there is at least a good chance a
package for ubuntu will work on Debian.

--
Len Sorensen