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4 Welcome to the Debian Neuroscience Repository
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7 This repository provides mostly neuroscience-related packages to be used on
8 Debian systems (or Debian-derivatives like Ubuntu). It contains both unofficial
9 or prospective packages which are not (yet) available from the main Debian
10 archive, as well backported or simply rebuilt packages also available
11 elsewhere. Please see the :ref:`faq` for more information about the goals of
14 This service is provided "as is". There is no guarantee that a package
15 works as expected, so use them at your own risk. They might kill your
16 system (although that is rather unlikely). You've been warned!
18 The repository contains both neuroscience-related packages, as well as general
19 purpose software which is necessary to resolve dependencies, or such that is
20 simply useful in the neuroscience context. All featured neuroscience software
21 packages are available from the :ref:`full package list <full_pkg_list>`.
26 <a href="pkgs.html"><img border="0" src="_static/package.png" title="List of available packages" /></a>
27 <a href="vm.html"><img border="0" src="_static/machine.png" title="Get NeuroDebian for your non-Debian computer" /></a>
28 <a href="debian/pool"><img border="0" src="_static/pool.png" title="Go to the package pool (deep and cold, only for experts)" /></a>
37 <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
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66 }).render().setUser('NeuroDebian').start();
71 How to use this repository
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74 The easiest way to use this repository is to download an APT-configuration file
75 (`sources.list`). Simply choose your target distribution/release and download
76 the configuration for a mirror close to you (depending on your browser, you
77 might have to right-click and choose 'save as'). Once downloaded, put the file
78 in the `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` directory on your system. Moving files in
79 this directory will require superuser privileges, therefore you should probably
80 download the file into a temporary directory and subsequently move it into
81 `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/`. APT-configurations are available for the following
82 releases and repository mirrors:
84 .. include:: sources_lists
87 Thanks to the `Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of
88 Magdeburg`_, and the `Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth
89 College`_ for hosting a mirror.
91 If your are interested in mirroring the repository, please see the :ref:`faq`.
93 .. _Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Magdeburg: http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de
94 .. _Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~psych
96 Once this is done, you have to update the package index. Use your favorite
97 package manager, e.g. synaptic, adept, or whatever you like. In the terminal
98 you can use :command:`aptitude` to achieve the same::
102 Now, you can proceed to install packages, e.g.::
104 sudo aptitude install lipsia
107 Not every package is available for all distributions/releases. For information
108 about which package version is available for which release and architecture,
109 please have a look at the corresponding package pages.
112 Package authentication
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115 When you start using this repository, you probably get warning messages
118 The following signatures couldn't be verified because
119 the public key is not available.`
121 Or you will be asked questions like this over and over::
123 WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
125 Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
127 This is because your APT installation initially does not know the GPG
128 key that is used to sign the release files of this repository. Making
129 APT happy again is easy:
131 1. Get the key. Either download the `repository key from here
132 <_static/neuro.debian.net.asc>`_
133 or fetch it from http://wwwkeys.pgp.net (2649A5A9).
135 2. Now feed the key into APT by invoking::
139 Where `#file#` has to be replaced with the location of the key file you just
140 downloaded. You need to have superuser-privileges to do this (either do it
141 as root or use sudo).
144 .. _chap_installation:
152 If your are not running Debian_ on a particular machine a :ref:`chap_vm` is
153 provided as a convenient testing and evaluation environment. After a
154 few simple steps to setup the virtual machine, you will be able to use
155 NeuroDebian_ as an integral part of your existing working
156 environment without any sacrifice.
162 Having been exposed to the wonders of NeuroDebian_ you are no longer
163 satisfied with your previous choice of operating system? We would
164 recommend installing Debian_ to replace or complement (dual-boot) your
165 existing OS. Please visit `"Getting Debian"
166 <http://www.debian.org/distrib/>`_ to obtain the images for your
167 hardware architecture and then simply add |repos|.
176 Our main goal is to provide neuroscience FOSS for Debian_. Thus the
177 whole project would not be possible without the work of over 3,000
178 Debian_ developers and contributors who are as enthusiastically pursuing
179 a similar goal. To add our share -- Debian_ packages of FOSS for
180 neuroscience research -- the `Experimental Psychology Debian packaging
181 project <http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-exppsy>`_ was created
182 to formally join the forces of
184 * `Michael Hanke <http://mih.voxindeserto.de>`_
185 * `Yaroslav Halchenko <http://www.onerussian.com>`_
187 A number of packages that are now provided within the NeuroDebian repository
188 were not packaged by our team, but similar Debian teams. Therefore we want to
189 express particular gratitude to `Debian Med`_ and `Debian Science`_ teams for
190 making their efforts.
196 `Email us <team@neuro.debian.net>`_ if you have any suggestions or
197 simply |spread| if you liked it.
209 .. probably should be purged altogether
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