Quote Originally Posted by Werner P. Schulz View Post
And why do you not use Synaptic to install gfortran and so on?
Hello Werner,

Up until now I have just been using Knoppix from the DVD , so 5.3.1 was practical for me.

I have been doing scientific programming for years but never got into computer system administration . I just started looking through the tools with Knoppix 7.2 and decided to try to install Knoppix to a USB flash drive. I had no problems with that. I then created a 2gb knoppix-data.img file .

Then , as you suggested , I used Synaptic . I did a refresh on the package list , which I had never done before. I looked through the updated list of packages and saw gfortran 4.7. I selected gfortran 4.7 from the updated list , did the download and install with no problems. gfortran 4.7 is working nicely.

I did notice that gfortran 4.8 is available. However , when I selected gfortran 4.8 for download there was a red tag and indications that there is a problem with this package.

Thank you and the others who have posted valuable information on the Knoppix forum.

Regards,
Ldot