[Swarm-Support] Swarm packages uploaded, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos

[Paul Johnson]

Hi, everybody


I just finished installing Fedora 13 i386 and x86_64 so I could build Swarm RPMs.  I uploaded the rpm files, you can get 
to the right spot from here

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Swarm/Swarm-Packages

or

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora

navigate down to version/arch/kups/packages, as in:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Swarm/Swarm-Packages/Fedora/13/x86_64/kups/packages

(replace x86_64 for i386. duh.)

I try to remember to sign these things, if your system asks, you might as well comply by using my package signing key. 
Here's the public thing:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/PaulJohnson-BinaryPackageSigningKey

For swarm-java, I just used the java-1.6.0-openjdk offering that Fedora 
includes already.  So you should have that too.

I took some "artistic license" with Swarm version numbering. The ones with version 2.3 are the last official VERSION 
that was announced, the SVN snapshots I used for the 64 bit packages recently are versioned at 2.4.  That's just sanity 
preservation for me.  The swarm source code still has VERSION file still says 2.3, but I needed new number for the 
packaging.


Also I built deb packages for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) 64bit.  This required the SVN Swarm version.  There's a link either 
in my Swarm folder or in

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu

The **KEY** thing for Ubuntu is that users must replace their existing blt with the one I offer, because that 
incorporates the fixes that the Fedora guys figured out are required to make blt work with tcl/tk 8.5.  If you don't get 
the new blt, then your Swarm models will crash as soon as they try to update a raster.

Look here:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/10.04/amd64/blt/

and here:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/10.04/amd64/swarm/

If you want to use Ubuntu java swarm, you should install the java-1.6.0-sun 
packages from Ubuntu.

I didn't build any i386 packages for Ubuntu, mainly because I don't have any 
i386 anymore.

No, i did not configure this as an apt repository, that's too frustrating on a public server (Dreamhost has nice 
service, but not a panoply of developer tools available). If figure if you are good enough to write a Swarm model, you 
are smart enough to download a deb package and use dpkg to install  it.

I've also got Swarm running on a 64 bit Rocks Linux cluster.

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/5/x86_64/RPMS/kurocks-x86_64/

It appears to me I did not build swarm-jdk on there, but I do have swarm-2.3.0 there, and now that the jdk wrinkles are 
worked out in the Swarm SVN, I will probably upgrade soonish.  if you want/need that soon, send me a private email.

And, finally, no, I cannot explain why the directory structure i use for the Rocks Cluster is different from the 
directory structure I use on the Fedora systems and why those are different still from Ubuntu.  Its just my artistic 
personality bleeding through.

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Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
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