Hi On 18/10/06, Martin Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aside from just the science applications, doing this for other common > sets of packages could be a real usability benefit for people new to > ubuntu. Agreed, but start small, and we don't really want to have hundreds of meta packages in the Ubuntu repositories, it would confuse people.
> Are there already meta packages for things like LAMP? The server addition of Ubuntu can install a LAMP stack I think. > How > easy is it to get these things added to the repositories? Which repository? Repositories are classified according to level of support and whether its Free or non-Free software. We shall assume we are dealing with Free software. The repositories for these are 'Main' and 'Universe'. 'Main' are the core packages backed by Ubuntu, I imagine its going to be hard to get anything in here, especially as the files we need to pull in are in Universe mostly. I have read some of the docs on the wiki about getting things added to Universe, if we do want to just create a simple package that depends on the already packaged apps then the procedure seems a little excessive, it involves posting requests, however this may not be needed if someone creates the package. MOTU new software: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/New?action=show Of course this is assuming you want to put packages in an official Ubuntu repository. I am not entirely sure about how repositories work but i think they are just ordinary files served over HTTP, with a special directory server. If that is the case there is no reason you can't create and host the package yourself. Of course people would need to add you to the sources list and may be worried about downloading unsigned files. Is the original poster around still? A sum up of the files Mark Forster suggested: CCP1gui - NOT FOUND Ghemical - Universe, Dapper and Edgy MOPAC - Closest match: libmopac7-0 Universe, Dapper and Edgy (is that the file you meant?) mpqc - Universe, Dapper and Edgy Gromacs - Universe, Dapper and Edgy JChempaint - NOT FOUND BKchem - NOT FOUND OpenBabel - Universe, Dapper and Edgy Jmol - NOT FOUND Pymol - Universe, Dapper and Edgy EMBOSS - NOT FOUND Tcoffee - Universe, Dapper and Edgy R- NOT FOUND GNUplot - Universe, Dapper and Edgy Octave - Universe, Dapper ad Edgy 6 of the applications you requested where not found in the package lists. For those you can ask MOTU to include them, you need to give good reasons to persuade someone to package them. None of the packages you requested are on the list of candidates for ubuntu inclusion. Have you looked at: http://www.bioclipse.net/ someone requested that be added. I have a nasty feeling packaging uses up a lot of disk space, I have very limited disk space after running Windows and Ubuntu, having Gnome and a load of KDE libraries to run some KDE apps and having several gigs of podcasts on my machine (I need another hard disk, when I get around to it). Having a package pull in other ones is probably quite simple, especially as the dependencies have already been handled by the other applications packaging. As long as they all work well together that is. Of course scientists may just want to use the science section of the repositories. Note you probably want Universe, Main includes 2 applications, both KDE based. (3 packages but one is data for one of the others). - Andy -- DRM: Digital Restrictions Management -- learn about the dangers at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
