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I have not had any problems getting CCP4 to compile on the "pay" versions of
Redhat. Out lab is currently running Redhat Enterprise 4.3 Advanced
workstation. For academics the price is $50/yr which is a bargain since you
get automatic errata updates and every crystallographic program we use
compiles and runs right out of the box (its $25/yr for the desktop/single
processor version). I didn't have such luck with Fedora when I tried that.
Dear James:
Even though we had paid for RH, I got fed up and switched to Ubuntu, which
is 100% free (they will even mail you a disk at their expense). All of
the crystallography software compiles and runs out of the box, and you
don't have to pay an extorsion racket for updates for Free (as in GNU)
software.
You can also download (or obtain) an Ubuntu live demo CD, so you can check
it out before you install. I installed Ubuntu one weekend on a new drive,
keeping RH intact so that I could go back. I never did.
One of the highlights of Ubuntu is the absolute ease of keeping everything
up to date and installing packages. A nice interface called Synaptic runs
as a front-end for apt, and (unlike most GUIs) is even better than the
command-line tool.
HTH,
Bill
