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

[Nikos Alexandris]

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