Re: How do I get started?
Le 13/03/12 15:18, Yves S. Garret a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm reading a book called nanotechnology for dummies. I'd like to
> know more about this field,
Hi,
Note that this list is about software, not science per se... Although
you might meet people here who are knowledgeable or even experts in
various fields, this is not really the best place to start a discussion
about it. You could try looking for a "nanotechnology forum" on the web.
That said, you start with "debien science" software just as with any
other Debian software: you launch your package manager (be it synaptic,
aptitude or other), you look for a package you want either by searching
in your package manager or on the internet, and install it.
For instance, look here:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/science/science-nanoscale-physics
This is in itself a package you can install. It "Recommends" and
"Suggests" a variety of packages : you can install this package and all
of the packages it recommends with:
aptitude install -r science-nanoscale-physics
To know the content of a package (in particular the binaries in
/usr/bin), you can click on "list of files" on this package's page. For
instance, for the "avogadro" package:
http://packages.debian.org/en/sid/i386/avogadro/filelist
Each executable in /usr/bin has a corresponding manual page that you
read with "man <exec-name>", for instance:
man avogadro
man avopkg
In addition, each package provides documentation (sometimes only little,
sometimes a lot) under /usr/share/doc/<pkg-name>. For instance avogadro
provides plenty of sample input files under
/usr/share/doc/avogadro/examples/
Best regards, Thibaut.
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