Bug#899218: Multi-Body Dynamics Simulation in Debian

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

Hi Rock,

On 2021-03-26 16:37, Rock Storm wrote:
> I recently came across the question of whether I could replace
> proprietary MSC ADAMS [1] software for multi-body dynamics simulation with
> a FOSS alternative. Best, option seems to be MBDyn [2]. However, it is
> not packaged in Debian though it was requested quite long ago [3].
> 
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSC_Adams
> [2]: https://www.mbdyn.org
> [3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899218

I managed to build MBDyn on Debian unstable and pushed my initial
packaging efforts to salsa [4]. The package needs some work to be
finished (I plan to do that), and hopefully MBDyn will arrive in Debian
soon.

[4] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/mbdyn

Best,
Andrius