Can I use binaries compiled for Scientific Linux on Ubuntu? I need to use library called ROOT in old version (released in 2010), but can't find binaries for Ubuntu.
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No and yes...
No, Scientific Linux is based on Red Hat and they use .rpm-packages; and Ubuntu is based on Debian, so you need .deb-packages.
But you can try to use alien to install/convert foreign packages: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RPM/AlienHowto
but IMHO compiling it yourself is definitely the better way...!
there were some problems/questions installing root-system in the past, so i link them here (maybe they are helpful):
How do I install root-cern?
Problem trying to install ROOT (by CERN) on 11.04 i386
How to install ROOT cern on Ubuntu 15
maybe also the obviously discontinued project Cern Root debs is worth a look: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cernrootdebs/
but no matter which method you use for installing (or also compiling)... with a 6 years old package/source on an actual system you might get stuck in a dependency hell.
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SL use RPM and Ubuntu use Dppkg for package management so is unlikely.
Can you compile from source? Do you know the library dependencies?
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