Multiple Linuxes for running Brains2. Was Re: .brains2rc(Re: [Brains-users] Error message during measurementofT50 volumes)

[Christoph Christmann]

Denis,

My English seems to need an update, too...

Since I installed the RH 9 version of brains2 under Suse and it works 
fine I thought about either

A. trying to run a new brains2 version (compiled under RH) under Suse or
B. to deinstall Suse and to use RH instaed in order to be able to run 
the new version.

I thought that anyone could have tested option A but obviously this 
is not the case. So I will try to be "adventurous" :)

Best regards

c


At Friday 24.02.2006 02:20, Denis Brown wrote:
>At 11:20 PM 23/02/2006, Christoph Christmann wrote:
>
>
>>I see. Since we are currently using the brains2 RH9 package running 
>>Suse 9.3 the question arises if it would be possible to run another 
>>RH (like RH 3 or RH 4) package under Suse. Does anyone has 
>>experience in this field?
>
>I'm not sure that I understand your question...  If you mean running 
>a Linux distribution within another Linux distribution, then you 
>could run something like VMware on your SuSE and then run RH inside 
>VMware but I suspect it would be easier to simply have the machine 
>dual-boot assuming you have disk space to hold both distributions.
>
>But I wonder why you would want to do this?   The RPM package of 
>Brains2 should just install into SuSE using YAST2 because SuSE uses 
>the RPM schema for package maintenance.   At worst you might have to 
>use the "force" option.   I did this at one stage on a Gentoo 
>installation with success.   But sorry if I have misunderstood.
>
>>And - most importantly - would it make a big difference for us to 
>>use the new release? I mean: is it worth trying for a simple user?
>
>It is quite a while since I last built Brains2 from source (nearly a 
>year in fact) and at that time the codebase was in a significant 
>state of flux.   Apart from numerous errors (arising from the 
>shifting codebase) I was able to compile using a variety of Linux 
>distributions including RH and Gentoo.   So take heart that if you 
>have to roll your own, it may not be too traumatic.
>
>As to the differences I defer to those with more current knowledge 
>but I do know that the code changes back then were designed to 
>improve operation of the package and allow the basic "Brains2 
>engine" to accommodate enhancements more easily.
>
>Regards,
>Denis
>
>
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