Re: how to install metapackages

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.

From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
To: Charles Russell <worwor@bellsouth.net>
Cc: debian-science@lists.debian.org
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.
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