Re: thank you for the updated compat_linux, rpm2pkg,emulators/suse113*, etc.

[Piotr Adamus <panpiotradamus%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I am checking new wiki from time to time- I don't see to much changes
unfortunatelly.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Pouya D. Tafti 
<pouya%san-serriffe.org@localhost> wrote:
> On 11 December 2010 15:31, Pouya D. Tafti <pouya%san-serriffe.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
>> On 10 December 2010 16:22, Piotr Adamus <panpiotradamus%gmail.com@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>>> Ok so let's summrize OpenSuse 113 support under the current.
>>>
>>> Works:
>>>
>>> -MATLAB 7.11
>>> -Opera 11
>>> -Flash Square amd64 (required libflashsupport  for amd64) or 10.1.102.65 
>>> i386
>>>
>>> Not tested:
>>>
>>> -Java linux binary (thank you Pouya)
>>> -Skype :)
>>
>> Well, having looked at the Makefile, I don't expect lang/sun-jdk6 will
>> work on amd64 with 64-bit linux compat libs.  It wants to install the
>> 32-bit binary.  I'll try to hack it later to use the x86_64 version.
>>
>> As for skype, I didn't find a 64-bit version yet.
>
> I'm happy to report that Mathematica 8.0 works too (not quite out of
> the box though; I had to apply some dirty hacks to installation and
> execution scripts).
>
> I haven't had a chance to modify lang/sun-jdk6 yet, in order to have
> it install 64-bit binaries instead of i586 ones; but I don't expect
> any major difficulty there, since both MATLAB and Mathematica come
> pre-packaged with functional 64-bit Linux Java binaries.
>
> It might not be bad to start documenting installation instructions for
> Linux apps in a wiki or something at some point.  Would the new wiki
> be appropriate for this purpose?
>
> Pouya
>