On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Klaus Wacker wrote:

> Dear SL, I am setting up SL 4 on a desktop PC as a possible prototype
> for our group. One problem I have is that I can't find some of my
> favourite software packages. In particular, I am missing:
>
> - auctex (the real TeX/LaTeX mode for emacs), and

I think I grabbed it from Fedora Core 1. Works on SL3 & 4.

> - tin (the newsreader).
>
> I am sure this list will get longer with time.  Does anybody know where
> I can find suitable rpms? I already have the sites listed under
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/community/repo in my
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

Check out rpm.pbone.net

> Another problem is the display of 8 bit characters (latin1 e.g.) in a
> konsole window.  Mutt running locally does it correctly (it also shows
> the chinese characters in my spam mail), but less or cat or slogin
> sessions display just junk. Does anybody have a good idea about what to
> do?  I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and I think utf8 is a good thing. I am just
> looking for ways to make the transition period, where not all software
> and not all machines know utf8, less painful.

I wish I had an answer for this one...

Stephan

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