Hi Andreas! > Do you have a list of packages that's missing in your institute?
I'm not sure it'd be helpful. The reality at our institute is that our base distro is rather outdated (Ubuntu 10.04, update to Debian 7 is pending). We therefore have a lot of software in /usr/local simply because the packages are outdated in our distro. The second category is non FOSS software. E.g. software that came with our instruments. The third category are tools that were part of some research paper or thesis. They are often not very mature and don't have an upstream that is likely to maintain the software. > I do not know "Environment Modules" but I agree that maintaining > several versions in a multi user environment is a problem we do > not have very handy solutions [...] This is the "Environment Modules" tool I was talking about: http://modules.sourceforge.net/ It allows managing locally installed packages by providing the command "module" to handle modification of the users' environment. Issuing e.g. "module add arb" would modify the PATH such that it now includes the paths to the arb binaries. It also includes versioning ("module add arb/6.0"), dependencies and a way to persist the loaded modules for a user. The "packages" (modules) are defined using small TCL scripts that define which variables have to be modified and how ("prepend-path PATH '/usr/local/arb-6.0/bin'"). All in all it's a useful way to manage locally installed software without creating a huge mess in /usr/local. It might be a candidate for packaging. Although it's not really "Debian Med". Elmar -- Dr. Elmar Pruesse Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Microbial Genomics Group Celsiusstrasse 1 | 28359 Bremen | Germany Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH School of Engineering & Science - SES Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Tel: +49 421 2028 984 Fax: +49 421 2028 580 http://www.arb-silva.de http://www.microbial-genomics.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
