Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#1207 closed enhancement (duplicate)

CentOS/RedHat 7 specific distribution

Reported by: Tristan Croll Owned by: Greg Couch
Priority: major Milestone: 0.8
Component: Platform Version:
Keywords: Cc: Tom Goddard
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description

Would it be possible to provide a CentOS-friendly tarball on the download page? Shouldn't require much (i.e. no re-compilation) - just put the GCC 4.9 stdc++ libraries from ​http://marlovitslab.imba.oeaw.ac.at/lab//chimerax/libstdc++-gcc49-centos7.tar.gz in ChimeraX's lib directory.

If you also put libbz2.so.1.0 in there (as a symlink to /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1) it would get Matplotlib running properly without the need for the user to mess around.

It may not affect a large *number* of users, but it does affect some quite influential ones - these distributions are quite popular amongst the structural biology academic community around here.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Eric Pettersen, 7 years ago

Component: Unassigned → Platform

comment:2 by Greg Couch, 7 years ago

Milestone: → 0.8
Status: assigned → accepted

The plan is to make a rpm in the near term. It might not make the 0.7 release, but it will definitely make the 0.8 release (and daily builds long before that). I'm also considering making a flatpak. If flatpak's were ubiquitous, then we would be able to drop making distribution-specific packages. But they're not yet :-(.

Last edited 7 years ago by Greg Couch (previous) (diff)

comment:3 by Greg Couch, 7 years ago

Resolution: → duplicate
Status: accepted → closed

Will keep track of progress in #473.

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