[mpich-discuss] Mpich2 - in Red Hat 7.3

[Sandra Guija]

Thanks Gus and Pavan,I am able to use Fedora release 5. Linux 2.6.15 with gcc 4.1.0 (RedHat 4.1.0-3)if this setup will work for 1.5rc2 or any other one?Thanks again,
Sandra Guija

> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:16:26 -0400
> From: gus at ldeo.columbia.edu
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Mpich2 - in Red Hat 7.3
> 
> On 10/03/2012 10:48 AM, Pavan Balaji wrote:
> >
> > On 10/03/2012 09:47 AM, Sandra Guija wrote:
> >> I will work on get a newer compiler.
> >> And for installation guide, should I use same as 1.4.p1?
> >
> > Are you upgrading to 1.5rc2? It comes with its own installation guide,
> > though 1.4.1p1's should also work.
> >
> Hi Sandra
> 
> It may be more complicated to install a new version of gcc
> in your Red Hat 7.3 machine, than to upgrade Linux to something
> more up to date.
> You may open an endless can of worms of package
> and library dependencies will be hard to resolve.
> Red hat 7.3 is about 10 years old, a lot has
> changed since then.
> 
> CentOS and Scientific Linux are free,
> and very similar to Red Hat enterprise.
> The current version is 6.3:
> 
> https://www.centos.org/
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/
> 
> Another option is to install Ubuntu:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/
> 
> The current stable version is 12.04.1, I think.
> 
> An (admittedly very sketchy) outline of the procedure is:
> 
> - backup your /home and any other data that you want to keep,
> maybe to a large capacity pen drive, or copy to a DVD perhaps,
> - download the ISO images (sites above, pick one),
> - burn the ISO images to CDs or DVD (probably several CDs or one DVD),
> - put the first CD or DVD on the CD/DVD tray,
> - reboot the computer,
> - follow the installation instructions,
> Once the system is installed:
> - add new users (yourself, maybe more), then
> - restore the files you need from your backed-up /home,
> - add any packages you may need (e.g. gfortran) with yum (CentOS, SL)
>    or apt-get (Ubuntu).
> - install mpich2
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Gus Correa
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