On Mon, 09 May 2016, Bennet Fauber wrote: > I will be installing a number of instances of ND, and I would like to > preinstall a selection of software as the users will not be able to > use sudo. Is there a handy way to install everything?
Define "everything". Unlikely you want or need to install actually everything available from debian/neurodebian repositories. It might not be even possible since some packages might conflict > I was thinking > that maybe I could grep from the .desktop files all the lines that > match > Exec=nd-autoinstall ... > and run it from the command line, but the format seems not to be > entirely consistent, e.g., sometimes there is a -p sometimes not, > nd-autoinstall afni > nd-autoinstall -p caret > and sometimes there is more than one version, e.g., > fsl-5.0-core:fsl-5.0-core.desktop and > neurodebian-desktop:neurodebian-fsl-4.1.desktop both seem to get > installed. > It also seems that nd-autoinstall may actually start the application > after installation, which isn't desired. that was the purpose of the nd-autoinstall script -- to install if not yet installed and start. If you just need to install, use plain apt-get install package1 package2 ... command > Any thoughts from people who may have deployed ND machines to, say, a > classroom, would be appreciated. Note that at the end of the VM welcome wizard we give options for some common selections. Once again -- what collection of things you would like to install? I found ansible handy to provide such initial or maintain continuous "uniform" setup across boxes, since you might want to tune some configuration as well, not just install a bunch of packages. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik _______________________________________________ Neurodebian-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-users
