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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>
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77 How to use this repository
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80 The easiest way to use this repository is to download an APT-configuration file
81 (`sources.list`). Simply choose your target distribution/release and download
82 the configuration for a mirror close to you (depending on your browser, you
83 might have to right-click and choose 'save as'). Once downloaded, put the file
84 in the `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` directory on your system. Moving files in
85 this directory will require superuser privileges, therefore you should probably
86 download the file into a temporary directory and subsequently move it into
87 `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/`. APT-configurations are available for the following
88 releases and repository mirrors:
90 .. include:: sources_lists
93 Thanks to the `Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of
94 Magdeburg`_, and the `Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth
95 College`_ for hosting a mirror.
97 If your are interested in mirroring the repository, please see the :ref:`faq`.
99 .. _Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Magdeburg: http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de
100 .. _Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~psych
102 Once this is done, you have to update the package index. Use your favorite
103 package manager, e.g. synaptic, adept, or whatever you like. In the terminal
104 you can use :command:`aptitude` to achieve the same::
108 Now, you can proceed to install packages, e.g.::
110 sudo aptitude install lipsia
113 Not every package is available for all distributions/releases. For information
114 about which package version is available for which release and architecture,
115 please have a look at the corresponding package pages.
118 Package authentication
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121 When you start using this repository, you probably get warning messages
124 The following signatures couldn't be verified because
125 the public key is not available.`
127 Or you will be asked questions like this over and over::
129 WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
131 Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
133 This is because your APT installation initially does not know the GPG
134 key that is used to sign the release files of this repository. Making
135 APT happy again is easy:
137 1. Get the key. Either download the `repository key from here
138 <_static/neuro.debian.net.asc>`_
139 or fetch it from http://wwwkeys.pgp.net (2649A5A9).
141 2. Now feed the key into APT by invoking::
145 Where `#file#` has to be replaced with the location of the key file you just
146 downloaded. You need to have superuser-privileges to do this (either do it
147 as root or use sudo).
150 .. _chap_installation:
158 If your are not running Debian_ on a particular machine a :ref:`chap_vm` is
159 provided as a convenient testing and evaluation environment. After a
160 few simple steps to setup the virtual machine, you will be able to use
161 NeuroDebian_ as an integral part of your existing working
162 environment without any sacrifice.
168 Having been exposed to the wonders of NeuroDebian_ you are no longer
169 satisfied with your previous choice of operating system? We would
170 recommend installing Debian_ to replace or complement (dual-boot) your
171 existing OS. Please visit `"Getting Debian"
172 <http://www.debian.org/distrib/>`_ to obtain the images for your
173 hardware architecture and then simply add |repos|.
182 Our main goal is to provide neuroscience FOSS for Debian_. Thus the
183 whole project would not be possible without the work of over 3,000
184 Debian_ developers and contributors who are as enthusiastically pursuing
185 a similar goal. To add our share -- Debian_ packages of FOSS for
186 neuroscience research -- the `Experimental Psychology Debian packaging
187 project <http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-exppsy>`_ was created
188 to formally join the forces of
190 * `Michael Hanke <http://mih.voxindeserto.de>`_
191 * `Yaroslav Halchenko <http://www.onerussian.com>`_
193 A number of packages that are now provided within the NeuroDebian repository
194 were not packaged by our team, but similar Debian teams. Therefore we want to
195 express particular gratitude to `Debian Med`_ and `Debian Science`_ teams for
202 `Email us <team@neuro.debian.net>`_ if you have any suggestions or
203 simply |spread| if you liked it.
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