Hi, > Hello, I'm new here, but now new in Linux. I've been a RedHat/Fedora > user about 10 years. > > The rapid turnover in Fedora made me seek out a more longlasting > distribution, now I'm testing Scientific Linux. SL installed cleanly > for me and starts fine. > > I'm having trouble getting some packages installed that we really > need. In Fedora systems, we have been using the livna service to get > RPMS for things that Fedora won't provide, such as nvidia proprietary > video drivers. On the SL, I tried to install the nvidia drivers at > the optional repository server, but it doesn't work as configured by > default. I can build a new RPM for my systems, I don't think that is > trouble. I also want to run the newest lyx, and I've found that, > after building and installing aiksaurus, then lyx does build just > fine. I can post those RPMs in case anybody wants them. > > The application where I'm really having trouble is Gnumeric. I'm > trying to build the version that is supplied with Fedora 8, which is > gnumeric-1.6.3-12. The problem is that trying to build it leads back > into a dependency HELL. First it wants goffice and libgda, and then > when I try to build that, it wants version of several devel packages > that are newer than the ones in SL5. See: > > error: Failed build dependencies: > sqlite-devel >= 3.4.0 is needed by libgda-3.0.1-4SL5.x86_64 > freetds-devel is needed by libgda-3.0.1-4SL5.x86_64 > postgresql-devel is needed by libgda-3.0.1-4SL5.x86_64 > mdbtools-devel is needed by libgda-3.0.1-4SL5.x86_64 > xbase-devel is needed by libgda-3.0.1-4SL5.x86_64 I think for any of these dependencies you should try the rpmforge third party repository. Dag, Dries, or even Axel Thimms (atrpms.net) provide a range of RPM's for RHEL and Fedora releases. Regards, Michael.