On 13/10/06, Nicholas Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Being able to master a CD based on one of the Ubuntu flavours to create > a more 'BCF' Centric response would be ideal. However there are 3 things > which stop me. > > a. Technical background > b. Knowledge of where and how to get started. > c. Patience >
There's a good, Dapper-specific, tutorial on how to remaster an Ubuntu LiveCD at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization/6.06 I think if you take the '/6.06' off the end you get a more generic way to do things. On 14/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/10/06, Mark Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wanted to suggest that a Ubuntu distro pre-built > > with a collection of valuable life science applications would be of value to > > academic and industrial researchers. > Building a new ubuntu distro is a big step isn't it? > > Maybe it would be better to start of small, first of all make sure all > the needed packages are in the repositories, for now is going to have > to be universe. > > And then create a package that pulls in all the science apps, similar > to ubuntu-desktop package. > > I don't know much about debian packaging but I imagine it shouldn't be > too hard to create a package to pull in a group of apps, its just a > dependency isn't it? As Dean already said, this is the best way to go about things. There's a wiki page or several hundred about building packages at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School. Start at the bottom of the list of already-held tutorials. HTH Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/