Re: PSPP on CentOS

[Alan Mead]

CentOS /RHEL are based on a version of fedora.  CentOS 6 is based on
Fedora 13 or 14, so a package from Fedora 23 is no more use to me than
an Ubuntu package.

I'll have to continue using the Windows version of PSPP until I upgrade
to CentOS 7 someday.

-Alan

On 2/24/2016 11:30 PM, John Darrington wrote:
> 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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