meta-packages are just regular packages with nearly no load -- just a
list of depends/recommends. Each task in
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/
gets its own meta-package... e.g.:
$> dpkg -l science\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-=================================================-=================================================-==================================================================================================================
un science-astronomy <none>
(no description available)
un science-astronomy-dev <none>
(no description available)
un science-bci <none>
(no description available)
un science-biology <none>
(no description available)
un science-chemistry <none>
(no description available)
un science-config <none>
(no description available)
un science-dataacquisition <none>
(no description available)
un science-distributedcomputing <none>
(no description available)
...
so I could install any of them regularly (apt-get, aptitude, etc)
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012, Charles Russell wrote:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience has a nice list of metapackages
> but I can't find any explanation of how to install them. I don't
> see anything that looks like a package name to use with dpkg.
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