Hi scientific-linux-users, thanks to all! I actually reduced the sources-list entry and hopefully start to use SL as my first 'productive' environment :-) Not, that I was not working before, but sometimes all the manual configurations took some time ... Best Greetings! Fabian * scientific-linux-users wrote 15 Aug 2005: > Hi, > > I just install SL and try to adjust everything just like my > archlinux-setup. > > For that I am missing some packages or I would like to > upgrade some :-) > > I tried to set up the other repos which worked except the > linux-ink makes problems; I don't understand/read russian, > so I don't know what I have to write into the sources-list > for apt. > > For the missing packages I would try to get other (Suse or > Fedora) rpm-source packages and run them under SL. Would > that be enought? Actually I am missing the newsreader slrn, > w3m and some emacs packages like auctex and preview-latex. > > Furthermore I would like to upgrade some packages like > mutt and vim. I suppose I just have to change the src.rpm > files!? > > Another small problems makes the installation of the > windowmanager wmii. There does not exist a rpm and I tried > to install it by hand. Unfortunately it complains about > missing 'X11/Xlib.h'. This should be in some package!? > > Maybe, anybody of you have any ideas about solving these > issues!? > > Thanks and best Greetings! > Fabian > > > > > -- --