Hi, I couldn't find them with dpkg
$ dpkg -l science\* No packages found matching science*. $ dpkg -l 'science*' No packages found matching science*. $ dpkg -l 'science-*' No packages found matching science-*. However I found them with; $ apt-cache policy science* B.R. SL >________________________________ > From: Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> >To: Charles Russell <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 8:18 AM >Subject: Re: how to install metapackages > >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. >-- >=------------------------------------------------------------------= >Keep in touch www.onerussian.com >Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > > >
