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

[Markus Metz]

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

The i686 versions are only required if you explicitly request them, or
if you have other i686 components installed which need them.

>
> 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The CentOS instructions in the wiki seem a bit outdated.

You can get wxPython from the EPEL repository:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

yum install wxPython

Other interesting repositories are elrepo for hardware and newer kernels

http://elrepo.org/tiki

and repoforge.org, but repoforge can conflict with EPEL (which I prefer).

BTW, I am not using ELGIS at all for my SL6 installations.

Markus M

>
>
> 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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