Jon Peatfield wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, schoappied wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in the scientific-linux distro. I have some questions
about some packages I like to use.
Are R-project and texlive in scientific linux? Which versions?
In sl5.2 R version 2.7.0 is the current version, and that may be
updated (at least in contrib packages) to the latest version in the
next few weeks.
Nice, the latest version would be perfect and good for a distro which is
specialized in scientific software ;)
sl5 doesn't include texlive since that wasn't commonly shipped in any
linux distribution when 5.0 was being built - it has tetex 3.0 instead.
If you particularly want texlive (rather than just a reasonable
tex/latex etc) then you should be able to find a version which will
work on sl5.
I would strongly suspect that sl6 will include texlive (since all
tetex development moved over to texlive) assuming that upstream don't
randomly drop tex. Last time I checked (several months ago) a Fedora
texlive package was still being worked on.
Would be good.
Let say that this is a user request from me to include the latest
texlive version in sl6 (when is the release date?)!
Thanks,
