-.. Debian Package Repository documentation master file, created by sphinx-quickstart on Sat Mar 28 17:08:58 2009.
- You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
- contain the root `toctree` directive.
+***********************************************
+ Welcome to the Debian Neuroscience Repository
+***********************************************
-Welcome to Debian Package Repository's documentation!
-=====================================================
+This repository provides mostly neuroscience-related packages to be
+used on Debian systems (or a Debian-derivates like Ubuntu). It
+contains both unofficial or prospective packages which are not
+available from the main Debian archive, as well backported or simply
+rebuilt packages also available elsewhere.
-Contents:
+This service is provided "as is". There is no guarantee that a package
+works as expected, so use them at your own risk. They might kill your
+system (although that is rather unlikely). You've been warned!
-.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 2
+The repository contains both neuroscience-related packages as well as
+general purpose software which is necessary to resolved dependencies, or
+is simply useful in the neuroscience context. The featured neuroscience
+software can be browsed via the repository :ref:`genindex` or through the
+:ref:`maintainer view <bymaintainer>`.
-Indices and tables
-==================
+All other packages are available through the search engine or from the
+:ref:`full package list <full_pkg_list>`.
-* :ref:`genindex`
-* :ref:`modindex`
-* :ref:`search`
+How to use this repository
+==========================
+
+The easiest way to use this repository is to download an APT-configuration
+file. Simply click on the name of your target distribution/release and save the
+downloaded file in the `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` directory on your system
+(depending on the browser, you might have to right-click and choose 'save as').
+Saving files in this directory will require superuser privileges, therefore you
+should probably download the file into a temporary directory and subsequently
+move it into `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/`. APT-configurations are available for
+the following releases:
+
+.. include:: sources_lists
+
+Once this is done, you have to update the package index. Use your favorite
+package manager, e.g. synaptic, adept, or whatever you like. In the terminal
+you can use :command:`aptitude` to achieve the same::
+
+ sudo aptitude update
+
+Now, you can proceed to install packages, e.g.::
+
+ sudo aptitude install lipsia
+
+.. note::
+ Not every package is available for all distributions/releases. For information
+ about which package version is available for which release and architecture,
+ please have a look at the corresponding package pages.
+
+
+Package authentication
+----------------------
+
+When you start using this repository, you might get warning messages
+like this::
+
+ The following signatures couldn't be verified because
+ the public key is not available.`
+
+Or you will be asked questions like this over and over::
+
+ WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
+ ...
+ Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
+
+This is because your APT installation initially does not know the GPG
+key that is used to sign the release files of this repository. Making
+APT happy again is easy:
+
+1. Get the key. Either download the `repository key from here
+ <http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/debian/apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de.asc>`_
+ or fetch it from *subkeys.pgp.net*.
+
+2. Now feed the key into APT by invoking::
+
+ apt-key add #file#
+
+ Where `#file#` has to be replaced with the location of the key file you just
+ downloaded. You need to have superuser-privileges to do this (either do it
+ as root or use sudo).
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