El Domingo 11 Febrero 2007 14:28, Michael Gilbert escribió: > hello, > > one of my professors just switched to Debian, and he was complaining > that there was no easy way to install all of the scientific packages > (compared to Fedora where he could just select the check mark next to > "science" in their package manager gui and get everything he needed). > instead he has to manually apt-get everything he needs with debian. > is there any way to easily install all the scientific apps/libraries? > > thanks for any thoughts. have a good day.
The only way I see to do it is trough synaptic (or aptitude). If your professor used to use Red Hat, perhaps synaptic would be the best approach (while I prefer comannd-line aptitude, but that's another history). Using the "Sections" view, there are three Cience-reated topics. Science, Science contributions and Science non-free (of course, it depends on wich repositoires he has configured). Perhaps a metapackage should be done, best if coordinated through this list. I understand that it would be _too_ difficult due to the quantity of science-related packages, but from a begginers point of view, it wouldn't be so much a bad idea. And, why not, in the package description, add some info pointing to this list ;-) Regards, Lisandro. -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ https://perezmeyer.com.ar/ si es un desafortunado usuario de Speedy
