Re: Install language: OS X 10.15.5, pspp-1.3.0-g69a18e796

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:31 AM John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:48:19AM -0500, Alan Mead wrote:
>
>      What Linux distro would I need to install to have pspp packaged (or have
>      the requirements packaged so the tarball woudl compile cleanly)? Because
>      I have six Linux machines running CentOS 6 and 7 and none of them will
>      run psppire.
>
>      I was hopeful that Fedora would support it and I'd be willing to install
>      Fedora, but last time I checked (quite a while ago) they weren't
>      maintaining a package for the spreadsheet widget. I'm not dying to
>      install an apt-get-based Linux, just to run PSPP...
>
>
> Ssw is very easy to build and install.  It requires gtk+ but once you
> have that installed there are no other dependencies.  I presume CentOS is like
> most other distros; they will accept package contributions from
> volunteers?

Centos is RHEL minus the Red Hat trademark, and RHEL is a downstream
of Fedora, so getting PSPP and SSW into Fedora would eventually get it into
Centos.  I don't know whether Centos accepts package contributions directly;
I suspect not.