You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.
I want up-to-dateish versions of TexLive, R, gnumeric, emacs, but on a more-or-less stable base of Centos-5.2. I asked for packages in this, but got no answers. So now I've built them and will let you try them if you want. I used the source packages from Fedora 8 and 9.
I wanted TexLive because many of us have jumped ship to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and it does offer TexLive, and the compatability across systems became an issue. With Centos5.2 shipping the years-out-of-date tetex, we were seeing things compile differently across systems. Making TexLive compile and install required a re-build with a newer version of poppler, but not with the absolutely newest version of poppler. Replacing poppler required a rebuild of evince. After emerging from dependency hell, it all seems OK. I uploaded the src.rpm files for the packages that I actually had to re-configure, even in the slightest. Otherwise, everything is in Fedora 8 or Fedora 9.
We use LyX to edit LaTeX, so I had to have a newer version, along with pybliographic (which required recode). We also use Emacs and auctex to edit LaTeX, so those had to be built as well.
All of these packages were built on a stock Centos 5.2 system, with all components as usual EXCEPT for the ones I provide below or the packages that can be downloaded from EPEL. As far as I can tell, everything works as well as it does on Fedora, no better.
Go here in your web browser to look it over.
http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/
My PGP key is in the top directory
http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/PaulJohnson-BinaryPackageSigningKey
And under i386 you should see I've created an RPM repository.
I don't have any i686 machines for which I'm doing this work, sorry.
To use yum, I think you should specify the repository as
[kups] name=Extra Packages for Centos Linux 5 - $basearch baseurl=http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1
Here is a package list (look under i386/kups/packages).
R-2.7.0-5Centos5.2pj..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 25.5M R-debuginfo-2.7.0-5C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 5.8M R-devel-2.7.0-5Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 93k aiksaurus-1.2.1-15.i..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 350k aiksaurus-debuginfo-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 283k aiksaurus-devel-1.2...> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 6k aiksaurus-gtk-1.2.1-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 39k aiksaurus-gtk-devel-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 5k cairo-1.6.4-1.i386.rpm 17-Jul-2008 07:23 554k cairo-debuginfo-1.6...> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 904k cairo-devel-1.6.4-1...> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 168k dkms-openafs-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 958k dvipdfm-0.13.2d-30Ce..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 135k dvipng-1.9-30Centos5..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 103k emacs-22.2-4Centos5...> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 2.0M emacs-auctex-11.85-8..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 500k emacs-auctex-doc-11...> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 1.0M emacs-auctex-el-11.8..> 17-Jul-2008 22:31 355k emacs-common-22.2-4C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 19.3M emacs-debuginfo-22.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 4.6M emacs-el-22.2-4Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 11.0M emacs-nox-22.2-4Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 1.7M evince-2.20.1-1Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 1.2M evince-debuginfo-2.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 1.1M gnome-doc-utils-0.12..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 275k gnome-doc-utils-styl..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 123k gnome-icon-theme-2.1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 3.4M gnumeric-1.8.2-2Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 11.7M gnumeric-debuginfo-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 5.9M gnumeric-devel-1.8.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 102k goffice-0.6.2-1Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 1.4M goffice-debuginfo-0...> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 1.8M goffice-devel-0.6.2-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 301k info-4.11-5.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 08:01 166k kmod-openafs-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:10 228k kpathsea-2007-30Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 113k kpathsea-devel-2007-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:58 177k libRmath-2.7.0-5Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 93k libRmath-devel-2.7.0..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 121k libgsf-1.14.8-1Cento..> 17-Jul-2008 23:08 126k libgsf-debuginfo-1.1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 416k libgsf-devel-1.14.8-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 123k libgsf-gnome-1.14.8-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 15k libgsf-gnome-devel-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 9k libgsf-python-1.14.8..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 17k lyx-1.5.5-1.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 08:04 9.4M lyx-debuginfo-1.5.5-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 31.7M lzma-4.32.0-0.6.beta..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 69k lzma-debuginfo-4.32...> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 207k lzma-devel-4.32.0-0...> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 6k lzma-libs-4.32.0-0.6..> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 20k mendexk-2.6e-30Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 44k openafs-1.4.7-1.1Cen..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 3.2M openafs-authlibs-1.4..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 186k openafs-authlibs-dev..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 226k openafs-client-1.4.7..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 508k openafs-compat-1.4.7..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 14k openafs-debuginfo-1...> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 12.7M openafs-debuginfo-1...> 22-Jul-2008 08:10 4.2M openafs-devel-1.4.7-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 946k openafs-docs-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 3.4M openafs-kernel-sourc..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 971k openafs-kpasswd-1.4...> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 104k openafs-krb5-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 132k openafs-server-1.4.7..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 1.7M pixman-0.10.0-1.i386..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 75k pixman-debuginfo-0.1..> 17-Jul-2008 07:22 274k pixman-devel-0.10.0-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 10k poppler-0.6.2-1Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 3.1M poppler-debuginfo-0...> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 3.2M poppler-devel-0.6.2-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 232k poppler-qt-0.6.2-1Ce..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 28k poppler-qt-devel-0.6..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 12k poppler-qt4-0.6.2-1C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 143k poppler-qt4-devel-0...> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 22k poppler-utils-0.6.2-..> 17-Jul-2008 18:08 79k pybliographer-1.2.11..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 851k python-bibtex-1.2.4-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:58 38k python-bibtex-debugi..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 90k recode-3.6-26Centos5..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 839k recode-debuginfo-3.6..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 1.2M recode-devel-3.6-26C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 13k teckit-2.2.1-3.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 08:02 322k teckit-debuginfo-2.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 599k teckit-devel-2.2.1-3..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 501k tex-preview-11.85-8C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 53k texinfo-4.11-5.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 07:59 841k texinfo-debuginfo-4...> 17-Jul-2008 22:20 676k texinfo-tex-4.11-5.i..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 135k texlive-2007-30Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 1.9M texlive-afm-2007-30C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 45k texlive-context-2007..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 54k texlive-debuginfo-20..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 8.3M texlive-doc-2007-30C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 37k texlive-dvips-2007-3..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 186k texlive-dviutils-200..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 286k ecd texlive-east-asian-2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 384k texlive-latex-2007-3..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 76k texlive-texmf-2007-2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 3.5M texlive-texmf-afm-20..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 6.2M texlive-texmf-contex..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 3.1M texlive-texmf-doc-20..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 185M texlive-texmf-dvips-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 388k texlive-texmf-east-a..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 800k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 3k texlive-texmf-errata..> 17-Jul-2008 19:24 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 3k texlive-texmf-fonts-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 56.6M texlive-texmf-latex-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 6.2M texlive-texmf-xetex-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 227k texlive-utils-2007-3..> 17-Jul-2008 19:00 213k texlive-xetex-2007-3..> 17-Jul-2008 19:00 2.9M
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson pauljohn32@gmail.com wrote:
I want up-to-dateish versions of TexLive, R, gnumeric, emacs, but on a more-or-less stable base of Centos-5.2. I asked for packages in this, but got no answers. So now I've built them and will let you try them if you want. I used the source packages from Fedora 8 and 9.
You might want to take a look at joining up with rpmrepo for distribution of packages. Folks are (sometimes with good reason) reluctant to use packages from individuals. Rpmforge/rpmrepo are respected repositories, and you'll be able to take advantage of plenty of developer expertise.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson pauljohn32@gmail.com wrote:
I want up-to-dateish versions of TexLive, R, gnumeric, emacs, but on a more-or-less stable base of Centos-5.2. I asked for packages in this, but got no answers. So now I've built them and will let you try them if you want. I used the source packages from Fedora 8 and 9.
You might want to take a look at joining up with rpmrepo for distribution of packages. Folks are (sometimes with good reason) reluctant to use packages from individuals. Rpmforge/rpmrepo are respected repositories, and you'll be able to take advantage of plenty of developer expertise.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've gone to http://reprepo.org and find mostly "empty space" and links pointing nowhere.
on 7-25-2008 7:51 AM Paul Johnson spake the following:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jim Perrin jperrin-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson pauljohn32-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
I want up-to-dateish versions of TexLive, R, gnumeric, emacs, but on a more-or-less stable base of Centos-5.2. I asked for packages in this, but got no answers. So now I've built them and will let you try them if you want. I used the source packages from Fedora 8 and 9.
You might want to take a look at joining up with rpmrepo for distribution of packages. Folks are (sometimes with good reason) reluctant to use packages from individuals. Rpmforge/rpmrepo are respected repositories, and you'll be able to take advantage of plenty of developer expertise.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've gone to http://reprepo.org and find mostly "empty space" and links pointing nowhere.
It is so empty it doesn't even point to an actual server. Did you mean http://rpmrepo.org/ ;-D
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