I did a base install of SL5 and found it was somewhat of a challenge to build the programs I wanted in their newest version. For the time being, I'm concentrating on the x86_64 platform, and then if I decide to stay with SL on all systems, I'll have i386 available. I don't have this setup as a yum repository because my host, Dreamhost.com, is a Debian shop, and they don't have the rpm repository tools installed. I was aiming to have working & current versions of lyx gnumeric unison nvidia (proprietary drivers) swarm A surprisingly large number of prerequisite packages was needed to build these things. A few I found in the EPEL repository, the others I had to build by hand. Soon I will have some statistical modeling packages, including "gretl" "ggobi" and "JAGS" and a game theory analysis program called "gambit". If you want to use these RPMS, great. You can do me a favor. Pick one you want, such as unison. Try to install it. The install will fail, and tell you other packages are needed. I should have all the needed packages on my site, except for the ones that are in the yum repositories. I did install some RPMS from the EPEL repository, but as far as I recall, those were needed for building, not installing these RPMS. If the required packages are not available to you, email me. I need to know, so I can put those RPMS up on my collection as well. If this ends up working, I will gladly contribute these to the SL contrib section, (as soon as I learn how that works). As an aside, I think the SL distribution should include the repo for EPEL, since it is as close as we can get to an official endorsed source for RedHat/Fedora Extras. Here's what I built for SL5 so far. 13-Nov-2007 13:12 - aiksaurus-1.2.1-15.x..> 14-Nov-2007 13:21 351k aiksaurus-debuginfo-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:21 289k aiksaurus-devel-1.2...> 14-Nov-2007 13:21 6k aiksaurus-gtk-1.2.1-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:21 39k aiksaurus-gtk-devel-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:21 5k blt-2.4-19sl5.x86_64..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 825k blt-2.4z-96sl5.x86_6..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 2.4M blt-debuginfo-2.4-19..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 1.8M blt-debuginfo-2.4z-9..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 11k blt-devel-2.4-19sl5...> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 78k cabextract-1.1-7sl5...> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 47k cabextract-debuginfo..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 108k chrpath-0.13-1.1sl5...> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 20k chrpath-debuginfo-0...> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 15k freeglut-2.4.0-11sl5..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 151k freeglut-debuginfo-2..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 300k freeglut-devel-2.4.0..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 13k gnumeric-1.6.3-5sl5...> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 11.7M gnumeric-debuginfo-1..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 5.7M gnumeric-devel-1.6.3..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 13k gtkglarea2-1.99.0-7s..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 22k gtkglarea2-debuginfo..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 30k gtkglarea2-devel-1.9..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 6k jikes-1.22-1sl5pj.x8..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 742k jikes-debuginfo-1.22..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 76k kmod-nvidia-2.6.18-8..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 2.2M kmodtool-1-1.noarch.rpm 14-Nov-2007 13:22 9k livna-config-display..> 14-Nov-2007 13:22 66k lyx-1.5.2-1sl5.x86_6..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 9.0M lyx-debuginfo-1.5.2-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 31.7M mathml-fonts-1.0-21s..> 14-Nov-2007 13:22 190k mdbtools-0.6-0.3.cvs..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 41k mdbtools-debuginfo-0..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 422k mdbtools-devel-0.6-0..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 19k mdbtools-gui-0.6-0.3..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 132k mdbtools-libs-0.6-0...> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 127k msttcorefonts-2.0-5...> 14-Nov-2007 13:22 3.4M nvidia-kmod-debuginf..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 515k ocaml-3.10.0-7sl5.x8..> 14-Nov-2007 13:15 5.7M ocaml-camlp4-3.10.0-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 21.5M ocaml-camlp4-devel-3..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 7.1M ocaml-debuginfo-3.10..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 3.6M ocaml-docs-3.10.0-7s..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 2.0M ocaml-emacs-3.10.0-7..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 88k ocaml-lablgl-1.02-15..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 175k ocaml-lablgl-devel-1..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 245k ocaml-lablgtk-2.6.0-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 3.6M ocaml-lablgtk-devel-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 1.4M ocaml-lablgtk-doc-2...> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 992k ocaml-labltk-3.10.0-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 388k ocaml-labltk-devel-3..> 14-Nov-2007 13:16 1.7M ocaml-ocamldoc-3.10...> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 2.3M ocaml-runtime-3.10.0..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 1.5M ocaml-source-3.10.0-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 78k ocaml-x11-3.10.0-7sl..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 20k unison-2.13.16-3sl5...> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 860k unison-debuginfo-2.1..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 216k util-linux-ng-2.13-3..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 1.9M util-linux-ng-debugi..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 964k wv-1.2.4-2sl5.x86_64..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 279k wv-debuginfo-1.2.4-2..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 611k wv-devel-1.2.4-2sl5...> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 40k wv2-0.2.3-3sl5.x86_6..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 250k wv2-debuginfo-0.2.3-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 1.2M wv2-devel-0.2.3-3sl5..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 181k xdg-utils-1.0.2-2sl5..> 14-Nov-2007 13:22 52k xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 5.6M xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 147k xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-..> 14-Nov-2007 13:17 3.1M I am uploading SRPMS to http://pj.freefaculty.org/ScientificLinux/5/SPRMS -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas