Re: salome in debian etch

[Roberto Nicolini <roberto.nicolini@gmail.com>]

Mauro Darida wrote:

> hello all,
> I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have
> downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch).
> The install wizard says mine is a "not supported linux platform" because
> is not sarge and recognise only gcc of my system; it wants to install form
> its binaries the rest of the software (even Opencascade 6.2, whichi is
> installed on my system, is not recognised).

If the binary package is only for Sarge, you're better off installing form
source. 

Expecially if the installer you have is trying to replace Etch versions of
the dependencies with its own verions, wich may well equal to break your
Etch system.

Roberto