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? Thanks again d /* Davide Cittaro Cogentech - Consortium for Genomic Technologies via adamello, 16 20139 Milano Italy tel.: +39(02)574303007 e-mail: davide.cittaro at ifom-ieo-campus.it */