SUSE 9.3?
Added by Anonymous over 19 years ago
Is anybody running Leginon with SUSE 9.3? I would like to know how well Leginon runs with SUSE 9.3 (as the documentation seems to recommend SUSE 9.2). I am considering upgrading from SUSE 9.2 to SUSE 9.3 to get round a hardware compatibility problem with SUSE 9.2 (which does not seem to be able to deal with my new LaCie external hard disk drive, although an old RedHat system has no difficulty and according to some information on the internet some newer Linux kernels appear to have this fixed as well).
Replies (4)
- Added by Anonymous over 19 years ago
i've not tried a new suse version, but we are running some custom in-house linux distro, that has little in common with suse, and installed everything with non-root permissions, with only minor problems. installation and compilation of most packages was straightforward but required some tweaking of the installation files in some cases (some of the more obscure makefiles kept our main sysadmin and me swearing for days. but if you have root permissions, you shouldn't run into that mess. i really, really advise against non-root installations ;). one small bug in the parameter-passing between leginon and the wx widgets kept me busy for some time, but apparently this has been fixed with leginon 1.1. upgrading to suse 9.3 doesn't sound very hard in comparison :) but if you have any problems, let me know, perhaps i can help.
justus
- Added by Jim Pulokas over 19 years ago
I have installed leginon on my office pc, which has SuSE 9.3, but I have not yet tried to run with this version. I don't expect there would be any problems.
As compared to the custom system that Justus has done, SuSE 9.3 should be much easier. The only packages that must be custom made from the tar.gz:
pyScope
Leginon
numarray
NumExtension
All of these can be built and installed using the standard command:
python setup.py install
or to be more proper, the RPM should be built, and then install from RPM:
python setup.py bdist_rpm
Other python RPMs will need to be installed from the SuSE 9.3 installation media, just like for 9.2 (python, python-wxGTK, etc.). When installing Leginon and pyScope from RPM, it should alert you if there are missing dependencies.
I will try to post these four SuSE RPMs on the download page today so you don't even have to worry about building them.
Jim
- Added by Anonymous over 18 years ago
Is SUSE 9.3 considered standard for Leginon now? I'm thinking about finally upgrading the laptop that Leginon runs on from SUSE 9.2 to SUSE 9.3. Python 2.4 seems to be standard for SUSE 9.3 and Python 2.3 for SUSE 9.2. One reason for upgrading to SUSE 9.3 is to get Python 2.4 although an alternative would be to just upgrade Python. I'm hoping the Python upgrade will fix some problems with running Leginon on the SUSE 9.2 laptop (and a full SUSE 9.3 upgrade may ultimately be simpler and give some other benefits). (As I mentioned earlier the Leginon client already runs on a Windows system that had to be upgraded to Python 2.4 in order to install version 1.2.0 of Leginon and 1.0.5 of pyScope),
William
- Added by Jim Pulokas over 18 years ago
We are now using SuSE 10.0 in our facility, but SuSE 9.3 is still a good option.
I think SuSE 10.1 will be released soon, or maybe already is. We may not be testing it anytime soon since we just upgraded to 10.0 not long ago.
Jim