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The "DebianMed/HowToGet" page has been changed by AndreasTille: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/HowToGet?action=diff&rev1=10&rev2=11 Comment: Fix link to Bio-Linux A. Supporting backports (newer packages to work on an older Debian or Ubuntu base) is something we do not currently do, but we recognise that this is a common need, especially given the rate of development of many scientific applications and the understandable tendency of departments to run a Stable OS platform (either Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS) as opposed to Debian Testing. There are various ways you might try to get newer packages on your system. These are not without their problems, and in many cases will be no easier than compiling from source, but may be useful for many people. - 1. Install packages from the [[http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux|NEBC Bio-Linux]] project. Bio-Linux is a customised Ubuntu distribution produced by the NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre in the UK. Some of these packages are backported from Debian while others are manually compiled or prepared from pre-compiled downloads. Bio-Linux aims to have the most popular packages no more than a month out of date. + 1. Install packages from the [[http://environmentalomics.org/bio-linux/|NEBC Bio-Linux]] project. Bio-Linux is a customised Ubuntu distribution produced by the NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre in the UK. Some of these packages are backported from Debian while others are manually compiled or prepared from pre-compiled downloads. Bio-Linux aims to have the most popular packages no more than a month out of date. (see below how exactly you can add packages from Bio-Linux to your Ubuntu system) 1. Try installing packages from the newer Debian or Ubuntu release directly. If the package installs cleanly then in theory it should work. Packages can be downloaded from [[http://packages.debian.org|packages.debian.org]] or [[http://packages.ubuntu.com|packages.ubuntu.com]] respectively. The downside is that some packages will not install cleanly due to missing dependency requirements, and even if the package installs you will miss out on automatic updates. _______________________________________________ debian-med-commit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-commit
