-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Davide Cittaro Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:11 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] bioinformatics repository?
Hello John, and thanks for the tips
On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:59 AM, John wrote:
David, you could try Checking out the Scientific Linux Project to Maybe add and use there Repos. It should also be binary compatable
with CentOS.
Unfortunately that repos is suitable for physics and not really for biology... :-( I found some useful rpm in FC6 repository but still I miss a lot of packages. What is strange is that lot of those packages are standard on less spread OS (I use Gentoo and FreeBSD)...
That would be the only Distributon that I know of that would maybe have what you need. The only others would be maybe Debian Based Systems
because of
the huge alternate package options. But off course then you
would need to
convert the debian packages to rpm format and there is also a tool to do that.
That's interesting... is it a yum wrapper for apt-get or do I have to download .deb packages and resolve dependencies on my own?
Use a tool named Alien to convert the debian packages to RPM format. Although be warned I have not had all that much success with doing it. It will either work or not work on installation of the rpm. Alien not only Converts .deb to .rpm, but can also do converts for other operating systems package formats as long as you have the correct libs installed.
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/RPM-for-Unix-HOWTO-8.html
JohnStanley