Dear Shahbaz, thank you very much for your interest in MonetDB! On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:22:56PM -0400, Shahbaz wrote:

Hi, I would like to use Monet DB, however the RPMs provided on your webpage don't seem to work for Fedora Core 5. Despite having these libraries installed, rpm -Uvh and rpm -ivh tell me that libMapi, libalgebra, lib_arith, etc. are needed by MonetDB-QL-server-2.12.0-1.x86_64.rpm. (I have AMD 64).

As the release notes for MonetDB/SQL (the SQL front-end for MonetDB) (http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=427010&group_id=56967) say, the RPMs have been produces on (and hence primarily for) Fedora Core 4; then *might* work on Fedora Core 5, too. However, as the release notes state as well, the MonetDB-SQL*-2.12.0-1.*.rpm requires that (at least) the MonetDB RPMs MonetDB-server-4.12.0-1.*.rpm and MonetDB-client-4.12.0-1.*.rpm are installed as well. Hence, please try to download (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56967&package_id=52344&release_id=427002) and install these MonetDB back-end RPMs before installing the MonetDB/SQL front-end RPMs. Please let us know, whether this works or not.

Could someone please provide a yum repository so users can' install monetdb just by doing the following: sudo yum install monetdb

we are indeed planning to "eventually" provide a yum repository; however, we haven't had the time/resources to to so, yet. Hence, for the time being, you have to download and install the RPMs by hand. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

I don't have an immediate need for a darwin-ports distribution, but it will be very helpful for those who would like to try monetdb on osx.

We do test (and hence support) MonetDB on MacOS X on PowerPC (cf., http://monetdb.cwi.nl/Development/TestWeb/Platforms/). (At least for now) the only way to install it is by compilation from the source code/distribution, only. To be honest, no being a MacOS X expert, I would no now, what the MacOS X pendant of RPM would be, and how to create the respective binary packages; any help/advice is more than welcome! Lacking (access to) a respective machine, we cannot test/support MonetDB on MacOS X on Intel, yet --- any support, i.e., providing (remote access to) a respective machine, is more than welcome ;-) However, there have been reports that installing MonetDB from source on MacOS X on Intel work fine. Kind regards, Stefan

Thanks

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