Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Amazon EC2 Instance

[Komtanoo Pinpimai <romerun@gmail.com>]

try those ubuntu images, I've been using them for a while, pretty
recent ocaml & libs in apt repo.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Scofield <jeffsco@psellos.com> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
>> 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.
>
> When I create a new EC2 instance, I get a menu of machine image
> options.  I've been taking the top one because it's marked as fitting
> inside the "Free Tier":
>
>    Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03
>
>    The Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03 is an EBS-backed, PV-GRUB image. It
>    includes Linux 3.2, AWS tools, and repository access to multiple
>    versions of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, and Tomcat.  Root
>    Device Size: 8 GB
>
> So, this is what I mean by "Amazon Linux".  Other than what it says
> above I don't know what it is, either.
>
> As far as I can see, there's no OCaml package in its default
> repositories.
>
> However, it also includes configuration info for EPEL 6, disabled by
> default.  I enabled the EPEL repository and was really hoping OCaml
> would be in there.  There are quite a few OCaml libraries in the EPEL
> repository, but OCaml itself isn't there.
>
> I don't really know anything about EPEL, but I thought maybe there
> was an additional repository I could add to get OCaml support.  It
> seems tantalizingly close to working.
>
> While googling I read about the Optional channel of Red Hat.  As
> far as I can determine, this is part of RHN, a subscriber service.
> Is this right?
>
> It would definitely be worth some money to get good OCaml support on
> Linux, but at the moment I'm just running some cloud computing
> feasibility studies and am looking to go on the cheap side.
>
> At any rate, the trick may be to choose a machine image from
> further down the list!  (I did get OCaml working by using
> packages from CentOS 6.2, as I wrote in another message.)
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Jeffrey
>
>
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