2 Downloading an OSCAR Distribution Package

The OSCAR distribution packages can be downloaded from:



http://oscar.sourceforge.net/


Note that there are actually three flavors of distribution packages for OSCAR, depending on your bandwidth and installation/development needs:

  1. ``Regular'': All the OSCAR installation stuff that most users need to install and operate an OSCAR cluster.

  2. ``Extra Crispy'': Same as Regular, except that the SRPMs for most of the RPMs in OSCAR are also included. This distribution package is significantly larger than Regular, and is not necessary for most users - only those who are interested in source RPMs need the Extra Crispy distribution. The SRPMs can be found under packages/*/SRPMS/ directories.

  3. ``Secret Sauce'': This distribution contains only the SRPMs for RPMs in OSCAR in the Regular and Extra Crispy distributions (it's essentially (Extra Crispy - Regular)). It is intended only for those who initially downloaded the Regular distribution and later decided that they wanted the SRPMs as well. The Secret Sauce distribution is intended to be expanded over your Regular installation - it will create packages/*/SRPMS/ directories and populate them with the relevant .src.rpm files.

All three distributions can be downloaded from the main OSCAR web page.

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