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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jeffrey Scofield <jeffsco@psellos.com>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Amazon EC2 Instance
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:45:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120620074533.GA5827@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1A58D60-D7E1-4E07-BD98-0EFCDF19351D@psellos.com>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:33:34PM -0700, Jeffrey Scofield wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Can anybody tell me how to install OCaml on an Amazon EC2 instance?  I'm
> running Amazon Linux (because it's free).  None of the preconfigured
> repositories seem to include OCaml itself (though a few libraries are
> present if you enable EPEL 6 "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux").
> 
> There's some indication that I need the "Optional Packages," but so far
> all I have is this name.  I don't know what it refers to or how to access
> it from my instance.

I'm not clear what "Amazon Linux" is, but RHEL 5 and up and all
derivatives should have an 'ocaml' package in the base distribution,
and a small collection of libraries.  In RHEL 6 (and forthcoming
RHEL 7) they are all in the "Optional" channel.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19  4:33 Jeffrey Scofield
2012-06-19  6:30 ` Stéphane Glondu
2012-06-19 10:46   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2012-06-19 12:00 ` Siraaj Khandkar
2012-06-20  7:45 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2012-06-20 16:45   ` Jeffrey Scofield
2012-06-20 17:12     ` Komtanoo Pinpimai
2012-06-20 17:25       ` Jeffrey Scofield
2012-06-21  7:57     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-21  8:00       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-21 17:48       ` [Caml-list] " Jeffrey Scofield
2012-06-21 18:02         ` Richard W.M. Jones

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