On 26 November 2012 21:59, Freak Trick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was attempting to install Scala (the programming language). The query 'yum
> search scala' on SL 6.3, did not return any positive results. Furthermore,
> there are no packages in non-official repo(s) either. Is it even possible to
> include Scala in the official repos. It is gaining in popularity and a
> package may help many overcome the relatively cubersome process of
> installing manually.
>

The official repos as far as I know are linked with the Red Hat
Enterprise release which does not include scala. EPEL could have scala
if a developer was interested in keeping up with it. This would be a
rebuild of the Fedora scala src.rpm and then keeping up with versions
and such.


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