[Reduce-algebra-developers] Reduce on Scientific Linux

[Raffaele V. <raf...@un...>]

Dear All,

I successfully compiled and ran Reduce on Scientific Linux version 5.4.
This is the Linux flavour developed and used by CERN, Fermilab, etc..
The packages that allowed me to compile successfully were, besides compiler:

pth
pth-dev
ncurses
ncurses-devel
libXft
libXft-devel
fontconfig
fontconfig-devel
xorg-x11-proto-devel

Maybe it is worth to add it to reduce-wiki; I can do it if I have 
permissions (actually it seems I don't).

By the way, it would be nice to have Linux deb and rpm plus a Windows 
installer; this would help increasing the Reduce user base. Is there any 
work-in-progress on this topic? I could help with deb, maybe also rpm. A 
preliminary deb (not by me) can be found here: 
http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/12.04/?q=reduce
I think that some work should be done on it in order to introduce it in 
Debian. After this step, the package would probably spread across all 
Debian-based distributions.

Best wishes, raf.

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