Hi Forum

 

I Have been trying to use Scientific Linux for a while, till now, everything fine, although I am not very used to rpm/Yum systems...

 

I am more of a Debian power user, although I must admit that SL ( default install ) is less a Hog on resources than Debian lenny ( Default Install ).

 

In Debian either one compiles stuff ( my favourite way of installing software ) or one uses precompiled packages ( *.deb ) solving the depencdency issues with apt or aptitude.

 

I find some differences in SL/CentOS/RHEL/Fedora systems...

 

Trying to compile stuff, the default paths of the X11 stuff ( binaries and libs ) is different from the rest of the linuxes... not critical... just a matter of setting it up correctly in configure options or in configure.in script...

 

The most critical issue is using Yum to install stuff...

 

Many times I have tried to install existing packages, priority policies stop me from doing it...

 

The only repos that I have enabled are the SL-5.3 defaults, and the EPEL repository from fedora project...

 

I suppose ( should i...? ) there is a 100% binary compatibility between SL base install and these binaries...

 

So...   if I Try to install Octave/Octave forge, Gnumeric, as well as some othe packages disabled by priority constraints, will it harm my system...?

 

 

BRGDS

 

Alex