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Hello everyone, first of all, please be patient with me, because this is my very first post to such a mailing list. Today I tried to install some of the med-* packages and got very confused during the process. The information I was looking for was hidden deep in /usr/share/doc/med-* directories that lot of software is a "suggest" only. I think that this information should be available before one installs a med-* package (ie. on a description of a package) so even a beginner will know, that this does not install all available software. For little advanced users (who read man pages, but are not advanced enough to know the location of doc files by heart) there might be some information about it being only a metapackage and a link to the readme file. And when the package is executed (like med-common in xterm) it should write in the end something like: Note: This file is not intended to be executed in itself, please refer to the manual pages (man med-common). As to what might be in the package description (that text which appears in synaptic describing the package) I would suggest this: for med-common: Debian-Med Project common package This package provides the basic infrastructure of all med-* packages and is needed by them. Other packages in Debian-Med Project are: ** med-bio for biological research ** med-cms for publicating a ... on the internet ** med-dent for dental medicine ** med-imaging for image processing ** med-pharmacy for pharmaceutical research ** med-physics for radiation oncology, diagnostics imaging and related fields ** med-practice for general practitioners ** med-tools for ... ** med-doc documentation, talk and ... (see "installed files") Note: All these packages are so called metapackages. This means they are not executable programs, but only links to other packages. This way you will conveniently get all the non-commercial medical software which is available for linux. For each med-* the description is simple and good, but might contain again something like: Note: Some dependencies are suggestions/recommendations only. If you plan to install those as well, please mark those for install separately. This metapackage depends on these programs: ... ... And suggests these: ... ... I hope this helps to see problems of normal user like myself. And thank you for reading all this stuff. Yours, Peter Houska |