PSPP on CentOS

[John Darrington]

I may have understood this wrong, but I thought that CentOS was a "downstream"
of Redhat Fedora.  I see that PSPP 0.8.5 (the latest release) is already 
packaged
for Fedora - See https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pspp

So presumably it ought to be in CentOS too.  Or have I misunderstood something?


J'


        I think it's no more complex than PSPP having library requirements that
        CentOS 6 will never meet (without developer-level efforts). We can also
        see that PSPP's requirements are accelerating away from CentOS 6.  Here
        are the details:

        *./confgure on pspp-0.8.5 produces:*

        > *configure: error: The following required prerequisites are not
        > installed.**
        > **You must install them before PSPP can be built:**
        > **        glib 2.0 version 2.32 or later (or use --without-gui)*
        >
        > address@hidden pspp-0.8.5]$ rpm -qi glib2
        > Name        : glib2                        Relocations: (not 
relocatable)
        > Version     : 2.28.8                            Vendor: CentOS
        > Release     : 4.el6                         Build Date: Wed 15 Oct
        > 2014 01:33:45 PM CDT
        > Install Date: Thu 11 Dec 2014 09:14:21 AM CST      Build Host:
        > c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org
        > Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM:
        > glib2-2.28.8-4.el6.src.rpm
        > Size        : 8047174                          License: LGPLv2+
        > Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Fri 17 Oct 2014 03:02:33 PM CDT, Key ID
        > 0946fca2c105b9de
        > Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>
        > URL         : http://www.gtk.org
        > Summary     : A library of handy utility functions
        > Description :
        > GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
        > such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
        > portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality
        > as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.



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