On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 12:06 +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Ghislain Vaillant > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I was looking for resources regarding Debian packaging of > MATLAB toolboxes. The only valuable material I found was this > wiki entry: http://neuro.debian.net/proj_matlab.html, which > acknowledges the need for integration of MATLAB software to > the Debian package tree, but does not provide particular > guidelines for doing so (yet ?). > > > I am currently packaging a library (ISMRMRD), which provides > MATLAB wrappers in the form of a couple of .m and a .jar. I > was wondering whether there is a policy somewhere which > dictates where these files should be installed. If not, do you > guys have recommendation regarding where to place these > files ? > > > > I can't help with policy, but maybe convention. Here is a package that > you could use as an example: > > > http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/s/spm8/ > > > > and its free components at > > > http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/spm8/ > > > > and here is one that ships octave and matlab support: > > > http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/p/psychtoolbox-3-nonfree/ > > http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/psychtoolbox-3/ > > > > HTH, > > > Michael > > > > -- > Michael Hanke > http://mih.voxindeserto.de > >
I have had a look at the psychtoolbox and spm8 packages as suggested. It seems that the convention is to place the architecture independent files of the toolbox in /usr/share/matlab/site/m/$NAME and the compiled binaries (mex files) in /usr/lib/matlab/$NAME. Can anyone confirm please ? Cheers, Ghis Does it make sense ? _______________________________________________ Neurodebian-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neurodebian-devel
