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I think Avogadro should provide “official” binary for 1.1.0 to work on most distributions with recent OB included. Not every Linux user is developer, and not everybody wants to compile from sources, I think this would increase user base for testing of unstable releases

Regards,
Konstantin

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I think Avogadro should provide “official” binary for 1.1.0 to work on most distributions with recent OB included. Not every Linux user is developer, and not everybody wants to compile from sources, I think this would increase user base for testing of unstable releases

For instance, SciLab and many scientific projects provide Linux binaries on their sites

Regards,
Konstantin

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Hi,

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Konstantin Tokarev annulen@yandex.ru wrote:

I think Avogadro should provide “official” binary for 1.1.0 to work on most distributions with recent OB included. Not every Linux user is developer, and not everybody wants to compile from sources, I think this would increase user base for testing of unstable releases

This would be great but we currently don’t have anyone who knows how
to do this (or has the time to learn). Any help regarding this would
be very welcome.

Cheers,
Tim

For instance, SciLab and many scientific projects provide Linux binaries on their sites

Regards,
Konstantin

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FYI Avogadro 1.0.0 is already available on official Fedora 12 repository and
I know an earlier version is available on Ubuntu distros. Don’t know about
other distros. Maybe this could be pointed out on the website with info on
how to install? i.e. on Fedora you type “su -c ‘yum install avogadro’” or if
you use sudo it’s “sudo yum install avogadro” and on Ubuntu you type “sudo
apt-get install avogadro”.

Best, Magnus

Whoops accidentally only sent it to Tim… sorry.

On 24 February 2010 19:47, Tim Vandermeersch tim.vandermeersch@gmail.comwrote:

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Konstantin Tokarev annulen@yandex.ru
wrote:

I think Avogadro should provide “official” binary for 1.1.0 to work on
most distributions with recent OB included. Not every Linux user is
developer, and not everybody wants to compile from sources, I think this
would increase user base for testing of unstable releases

This would be great but we currently don’t have anyone who knows how
to do this (or has the time to learn). Any help regarding this would
be very welcome.

Cheers,
Tim

For instance, SciLab and many scientific projects provide Linux binaries
on their sites

Regards,
Konstantin

Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev

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proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
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FYI Avogadro 1.0.0 is already available on official Fedora 12 repository and I know an earlier version is available on Ubuntu distros. Don’t know about other distros. Maybe this could be pointed out on the website with info on how to install? i.e. on Fedora you type “su -c ‘yum install avogadro’” or if you use sudo it’s “sudo yum install avogadro” and on Ubuntu you type “sudo apt-get install avogadro”.

  1. It’s already documented (but link to this page is not in central place of page, it’ll be fixed soon)
  2. My proposition was about “official”, not 3rd party build. Distributions may have different versions of library dependencies, so binaries may work differently. Moreover, 1.1.x series will probably not be packaged by major distribution because of unstable status (or will be packaged with OB 2.2.3, so users will not be able to try several new features)

Best, Magnus

Whoops accidentally only sent it to Tim… sorry.

On 24 February 2010 19:47, Tim Vandermeersch tim.vandermeersch@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Konstantin Tokarev annulen@yandex.ru wrote:

I think Avogadro should provide “official” binary for 1.1.0 to work on most distributions with recent OB included. Not every Linux user is developer, and not everybody wants to compile from sources, I think this would increase user base for testing of unstable releases

This would be great but we currently don’t have anyone who knows how
to do this (or has the time to learn). Any help regarding this would
be very welcome.

Cheers,
Tim

For instance, SciLab and many scientific projects provide Linux binaries on their sites

Regards,
Konstantin

Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev

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proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
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Regards,
Konstantin

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Konstantin Tokarev annulen@yandex.ru wrote:

FYI Avogadro 1.0.0 is already available on official Fedora 12 repository and I know an earlier version is available on Ubuntu distros. Don’t know about other distros. Maybe this could be pointed out on the website with info on how to install? i.e. on Fedora you type “su -c ‘yum install avogadro’” or if you use sudo it’s “sudo yum install avogadro” and on Ubuntu you type “sudo apt-get install avogadro”.

  1. It’s already documented (but link to this page is not in central place of page, it’ll be fixed soon)
  2. My proposition was about “official”, not 3rd party build. Distributions may have different versions of library dependencies, so binaries may work differently. Moreover, 1.1.x series will probably not be packaged by major distribution because of unstable status (or will be packaged with OB 2.2.3, so users will not be able to try several new features)

Providing official 1.1.x packages for a selected number of
distributions (e.g. Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora) would be possible. The
“inpute files” for 1.0.x can probably be reused to package 1.1.x.
Perhaps we could even provide packages containing additional plugins.
But again, someone just has to do it… :slight_smile:

Best, Magnus

Whoops accidentally only sent it to Tim… sorry.

On 24 February 2010 19:47, Tim Vandermeersch tim.vandermeersch@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Konstantin Tokarev annulen@yandex.ru wrote:

I think Avogadro should provide “official” binary for 1.1.0 to work on most distributions with recent OB included. Not every Linux user is developer, and not everybody wants to compile from sources, I think this would increase user base for testing of unstable releases

This would be great but we currently don’t have anyone who knows how
to do this (or has the time to learn). Any help regarding this would
be very welcome.

Cheers,
Tim

For instance, SciLab and many scientific projects provide Linux binaries on their sites

Regards,
Konstantin

Download Intel(R) Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev

Avogadro-devel mailing list
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Download Intel(R) Parallel Studio Eval
Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev

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Regards,
Konstantin

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See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta.
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2010/2/25 Tim Vandermeersch tim.vandermeersch@gmail.com:

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Konstantin Tokarev annulen@yandex.ru wrote:

FYI Avogadro 1.0.0 is already available on official Fedora 12 repository and I know an earlier version is available on Ubuntu distros. Don’t know about other distros. Maybe this could be pointed out on the website with info on how to install? i.e. on Fedora you type “su -c ‘yum install avogadro’” or if you use sudo it’s “sudo yum install avogadro” and on Ubuntu you type “sudo apt-get install avogadro”.

  1. It’s already documented (but link to this page is not in central place of page, it’ll be fixed soon)
  2. My proposition was about “official”, not 3rd party build. Distributions may have different versions of library dependencies, so binaries may work differently. Moreover, 1.1.x series will probably not be packaged by major distribution because of unstable status (or will be packaged with OB 2.2.3, so users will not be able to try several new features)

Providing official 1.1.x packages for a selected number of
distributions (e.g. Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora) would be possible. The
“inpute files” for 1.0.x can probably be reused to package 1.1.x.
Perhaps we could even provide packages containing additional plugins.
But again, someone just has to do it… :slight_smile:

It’s becoming relatively popular these days to have nightly build
scripts for Ubuntu packages using Launchpad’s PPAs. I was wanting to
set one up for Avogadro but have lacked the time to get it going. It’s
certainly possible though.

-Jordan

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I think Avogadro should provide “official” binary for 1.1.0 to work on most distributions with recent OB included. Not every Linux user is developer, and not everybody wants to compile from sources, I think this would increase user base for testing of unstable releases
This would be great but we currently don’t have anyone who knows how
to do this (or has the time to learn). Any help regarding this would
be very welcome.

I think Windows deployment experience can help.
I’m trying to build “universal” package now using static Qt 4.6.2 (built with minimum of system libs), but it seems to be linked to every plugin library. Probably, dynamic linking is needed. Have you any ideas how to create proper package containing Qt and OB as dynamic libraries?

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Regards,
Konstantin

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Providing official 1.1.x packages for a selected number of
distributions (e.g. Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora) would be possible. The
“inpute files” for 1.0.x can probably be reused to package 1.1.x.
Perhaps we could even provide packages containing additional plugins.
But again, someone just has to do it… :slight_smile:

As for distribution-specific packages, I think Suse Build Service is a great thing. It can build packages for many distros (including OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu) using dependencies from their repositories

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Regards,
Konstantin