Hi Forum,

I am planning to build a LiveDVD with applications intended for Mechanical Engineering;

Some of them are in the Repos, some have been built from source on other systems ( I use Slackware on my work as Engineer ) so I can easily rebuild them in Knoppix, as soon as I have the needed libs ( binaries and headers ) to link them, and some are only released as Binaries... either for the x86 or the x86_64 arch.

My apps will be Cad applications,
FEA and FVM software,
Math prototyping applications,

stuff like BRL-CAD, Code Aster, Salome, Calculix, Ofelie, DealII, OpenFOAM, Octave/QtOctave, FreeMat, K3d, Blender, Syrthes, Code Saturne, Netgen, Gmsh, Mayavi2, ParaView, Visit, gerris flow solver, GFSView, OpenCascade,...

My questions are :

Since I am supposed to build lots of things from source, I will need the support of some libraries and applications to do this... Since Knoppix, Unlike Slackware or Arch has automatic package management, I use Synaptic to install these prerequirements... yet some of them cannot be installd, despite the fact that they show up in Synaptic after updating the exixting repos...

This is strange... I am using Knoppix 6.2 LiveDVD ...

Must I enable some additional repos to have the environment to build the stuff I want, so as to have it installed in a chroot, prior to create a bootable iso image...?

Why do the demos in Scilab fail to run in a Live session...?

Is there any planned release of a Knoppix 6.2 x86_64....?

... I guess this is all.... for now...

BRGDS

Alex