Re: [Pan-users] Can I get Pan for CentOS 6.4

[Duncan]

Beartooth posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:32:55 +0000 as excerpted:

> I've just installed 6.4 on an old T30 ThinkPad, and I'm in the midst of
> setting it up. Can I get an rpm of Pan somewhere? I don't see it on epel
> (if I've got that installed properly; it's been a long time ...), nor on
> pan.rebelbase.com.

I'm not familiar enough with centos/rhel to know how old/new a particular 
version is, but... back about a decade ago when I was still on the rpm-
based mandrake, I used to use rpmfind for rpms not yet available in my 
distro.  My experience was that I could use rpms created for other 
distros as long as I chose the correct arch (i586 or x86_64 or whatever), 
and was willing to install updated libraries, etc, if the new rpm 
required them as dependencies.

rpmfind is still around, and lists x86_64 pan-0.139 rpms for a number of 
Fedora (rawhide, 19, 18), OpenSuSE (factory, 12.3) and Mageia (cauldron, 
3) distro releases.

Presumably if you're still on 32-bit, you can change the arch accordingly 
and get a working rpm, but be aware that with 32-bit some distros will 
use i386, others i586 or i686, so you might want to search for each or 
simply leave the arch blank (tho then you'll get ppc and etc hits as 
well).

However, note that 64-bit pan is definitely recommended if you're going 
to be using pan on large (millions of posts) groups, as 32-bit pan is 
known to run into the standard 32-bit 2-gig-per-process memory limit for 
such groups, and 64-bit pan won't have that problem, tho you may simply 
run out of memory.

If you're willing to go with something earlier than pan-0.139 in ordered 
to get more directly RHEL/CentOS compatible packages, I see 0.135, 0.134 
and 0.133 listed, DAG packages for Red Hat Linux el6, which should be 
centos 6 compatible tho I don't know about the minor release version 
(centos 6.4).

Personally, I'd try the pan-0.139 fedora 18/19 packages first, as they're 
current pan version and fedora being red hat family...

Here's the general rpm find pan search link.  You can set arch and 
otherwise modify the search from there.  (I just used firefox's search in 
page function to find 0.139 versions, etc.)

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=pan

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