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

[Mathieu Baudier]

> 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?

This is related to EL5, so probably not relevant in your case.

> 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.

That would be really useuful to have these details though, in order to
better understand your problem.

Can't you copy/paste them in to a text file and transfer it somehow?

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nik at nikosalexandris.net> 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?
>
> 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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