Hello: I am at amd64 lenny for scientific computation (i.e. no x-system) and i386 squeeze for the desktop with graphics.
For lenny, yesterday I needed MPICH2 instead of openmpi already installed. No deb package for lenny, only for squeeze. I compiled MPICH2 for lenny. However, the parallelized package that requires support from MPICH2 requests python2.6, which is unavailable in lenny. Installing that from squeeze, even with apt-pinning is too risky for me, and I find too difficult to compile python. There is no technical help in my institution. One can suggest: move to squeeze for scientific computation. Not a solution: the packages for chemical computation are not updated frequently, particularly non-commercial ones. Key packages for me do not run on squeeze, only on stable. When such problems arise, I am tempted to inquire if there is another distribution of linux that overcomes such problems. Is there one? Thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinupyhvpzgtte4w1snvfwxehgv29djdhwd7t...@mail.gmail.com