RE: Intall on Red Hat Linux

[Jares, Timothy]

OK.  I 'm convinced the RPMs are the way to go.  I've never used them before
but after digging through the man pages went ahead and used the command

rpm --  i -allfiles -vv swarmdemos-2_0_1-1_i386.rpm

to install the demos,  swarm 2.0.1 source, etc as found on the swarm
web-site at

/pub/swarm/redhat/RPMS/i386

Actually, in the end I used the above install command for each package
available.  I then went to /usr/bin to run heatbugs as a test and it core
dumped.  I figured it couldn't be that easy, but I really don't know what
else I am supposed to do.

I suspect  I didn't need all of the packages and could erase them if
necessary.  Should I be dealing with the SRPMS stuff?  If not, is there a
step - configure or make - that I am missing?  Ultimately, WHEN I get
heatbugs, etc. working, and I try to get my stuff to work again, where is
SWARMHOME?

I appreciate your patience --- mine is being tested a little right now!

Oh, I almost forgot.  I think my installation should be complete - I
selected install everything when I started.  I tried a version of the rpm
command you specified and found the types file in that directory.  The
command I used was:

$rpm -qf /usr/include/linux/types.h
kernel-headers-2.2.5-15

It does appear that maybe my version is slightly older/different, but I
don't know if that's a big deal.

Thanks!



Timothy E. Jares, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Finance
College of Business Administration
University of North Florida
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                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Alex Lancaster [mailto:address@hidden
                Sent:   Monday, September 27, 1999 4:10 PM
                To:     address@hidden
                Subject:        Re: Intall on Red Hat Linux

                >>>>> "PJ" == Paul E Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

                PJ> I admire your pioneer spirit and determination to build
your own
                PJ> swarm.  But...

                PJ> Alex has perfectly good RPMs on the SFI site, I think
you should
                PJ> try to install them.  They will tell you what RPMs you
still need
                PJ> to install in your system.  That's a big plus!  As I
note below, I
                PJ> think your RedHat install may be incomplete.

                Just to add to Paul's advice, please do use the RPMs if at
all
                possible.  If you have a fresh Red Hat 6.0 install, it
couldn't be
                easier, they're designed for a `stock' (i.e. non-highly
customized) RH
                6.0 install.

                I think some folks may be under the impression that the
2.0.1 RPMs
                somehow necessitate a install one or other of the Java JDKs
for Red
                Hat - not so!

                Just to clear up any possible confusion, here's the deal:
the two
                basic packages:

                * swarm-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm
                * swarm-hdf5-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm 

                can both be installed *without* any Java jdk.  [In
rpm-speak:
                essentially they both `provide' the `swarm-base' `virtual'
package].

                `swarm-kaffe-2.0.1-1.i386.rpm' is an `add-on' package that
will enable
                Java-support for *either* of these packages.  (Of course
`swarm-kaffe'
                package *does* require kaffe to be installed, but you don't
need
                swarm-kaffe to get plain old vanilla Swarm Objective C
support).

                Eventually we will make HDF5 support in Swarm work in the
same way (we
                need to make changes to Swarm source, first, to make that
happen).  So
                you will be able to mix-and-match only the components you
need, rather
                than having to install a single package that has components
you don't
                necessarily want. 

                [Btw, the emacs packages for Red Hat work this way, you have
the
                following RPMs:

                 emacs (the basic emacs)
                 emacs-nox (only terminal support)
                 emacs-X11 (X support)
                 emacs-el (E-lisp source)

                The comparison with Swarm is not exact, but you get the
idea].

                [...]

                 --- Alex

                -- 
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http://www.santafe.edu/~alex
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