On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:28:13PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > 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. First, by the definition of the the Priority field, it is only guaranteed to be possible to co-install all the optional,standard,important,required packages. extra packages can conflict with each other, or packages of higher priority. In practice, even the set of !extra packages may not be co-installable (this is a bug).
Anyway, $ grep-aptavail -ns Package -F Section science --and --not -F Priority extra |grep -Fxv "$(for p in xmakemol php4-gpib netcdf-bin minc-tools gri gri-el dx; do echo $p; done)" |xargs sudo apt-get -y install [...] Need to get 337MB of archives. After unpacking 963MB of additional disk space will be used. [...] The set of packages may need to be tweaked, depending on what your available suites are, and what is in those suites. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
