As suggested by
>..but are they available someplace(in the labs perhaps), as rpms
> or something? As far as I understand from your reply the answer is no, you
> must find them and build them yourself.
I would suggest to reply to my mail on the mailing list and ask the SL users where they find the scientific applications
for SL. There a plenty of repositories out there that are compatible with SL and include "scientific" rpms.
Urs
Could we have an idea of where SL users get their scientific packages from? Thus far we have one answer,
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)
Any others?
Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>