On 08/03/18 15:14, Benjamin Redelings wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Ben Redelings (http://ben-redelings.org) and I've recently > joined debian-med on salsa. I've been thinking about uploading some new > phylogenetics / bioinformatics software, partly so that I can tell > students in workshops "just type sudo apt-get install <packages> if you > are running debian or ubuntu". > > For this use case, I probably can't tell everyone to run debian > testing - a lot of people are going to show up running ubuntu. What > might you all recommend? In theory ubuntu people could add debian > testing to `apt/sources.list.d`. I have no idea how much conflict that > would cause - perhaps ubuntu users could set the priority of testing to > something lower than ubuntu in apt/preferences. > > I could also try to make my own PPA called bredelings/bioinformatics > or something like this, and only maintain packages that I am interested > in... > > Thoughts?
Hi, BenRI. You might consider running Bio-Linux: > https://www.bioinformatics.org/forums/forum.php?forum_id=12786 Bio-Linux is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and uses many of the packages contributed by the Debian-Med team. Please contact me off-list if you want more information about Bio-Linux. Thanks, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford, AB33 8QJ, Scotland (UK) tel. +44(0)19755 63548 http://minke-informatics.co.uk mob. +44(0)7985 078324 mailto:[email protected]
