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On 07/01/15 06:01, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm trying to install an engineering package by the name of |
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> Salome-meca. There is no ebuild for this. They claim to have a |
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> "universal installer" but I've spent too much time trying to get this |
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> thingy to work and can now confidently say it's not too universal. |
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> There are installs for Debian 6 & 7.1, Mandriva, Centos 5.5 & 6.3, |
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> Fedora 18 and Ununtu 13.1. Which of these would be the easiest to grab |
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deb and rpm are basically glorified zip files |
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if you download either then go to the forums and choose your tool [1] |
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you can unpack these files. |
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you will find when you do --- let's say you unpack into |
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/tmp/experiments/ you will have /tmp/experiments/usr/bin and |
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/tmp/experiments/etc |
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you will have to copy over the relevant bits to the right place manually |
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[1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-914534-start-0.html |
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> and somehow shoehorn/install into an up to date Gentoo system running KDE? |
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> Any help, including links on installing "non Gentoo" into Gentoo, would |
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> be greatly appreciated. |
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> Regards, |
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> Andrew |
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