[ELGIS] Which ELGIS repository for SL6 on installing "wx" components

[Volker Fröhlich]

On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 13:31 +0300, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> Hi and apologies for cross-posting.
> 
> 
> In short,
> 
> which is the preferred ELGIS repository (for Scientific Linux 64) if I want to 
> get *only* dependencies to get into compilation of any grass-gis version?

Assuming you're basing your build on an existing package, yum-builddep
from the yum-utils package should do what you want. Even if you don't,
just download a GRASS SRPM and run yum-builddep on it.

I expect everything you need to come from RHEL/CentOS/SL, EPEL and
ELGIS.

Volker


> I have a hard time to get wxGTK-devel installed. The installer complains about 
> "multilib" something stuff, referring to libXcursor (the 64-bit version is 
> installed, the i686 versions seems to be required?).
> 
> Do I really need to follow the instructions for CentOS as described in the 
> GRASS-Wiki (<http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#CentOS>)? 
> I.e., install manually all of the "wx" components?
> 
> 
> The longer story
> 
> I had a small experience in installing Scientific Linux and use the ELGIS 
> repository a few months ago.  As I had not too much time, and in addition I 
> wanted to demo the process in people who wouldn't take time to compile stuff 
> from source, I dropped it in favour for (K)Ubuntu.
> 
> These days, I am setting up a new linux workstation (Xeon 2630 2.3MHz, 32GB 
> RAM). After a fresh SL6 installation and addition of the ELGIS (Testing), it 
> feels, in general, a bit slow.  I didn't have yet the time to test real and 
> heavy raster/vector processing stuff though.
> 
> I have, also, some yum plugins enabled and this affects the overall cli 
> experience in terms of how quick the system manages packages (installation, 
> checking, updating, etc.).
> 
> I activated the ELGIS and ELGIS Testing repositories just to get all of the 
> (latest) OSGeo related dependencies installed.  I have a hard time to get 
> wxGTK-devel installed.  As I am writing from another machine, it's hard to 
> copy-paste details.
> 
> An extra question:  can I seamlessly transfer my (K)Ubuntu bash 
> settings/profiles in SL6?
> 
> Thank you, N
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