From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00A247ED33 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:45:35 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAB9/4U9QRFuw/2dsb2JhbABFtV6BB4IYAQEFOj8QCw4KHBIUKCGIIrlYhUqFZIU7YAOVKJACgmA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,440,1336341600"; d="scan'208";a="163657666" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 20 Jun 2012 09:45:34 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ShFbZ-0001Yw-8F; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:45:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:45:33 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" To: Jeffrey Scofield Cc: Caml List Message-ID: <20120620074533.GA5827@annexia.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Amazon EC2 Instance 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