Welcome to the Debian Neuroscience Repository¶
This repository provides mostly neuroscience-related packages to be used on Debian systems (or Debian-derivatives like Ubuntu). It contains both unofficial or prospective packages which are not (yet) available from the main Debian archive, as well backported or simply rebuilt packages also available elsewhere. Please see the Frequently Asked Questions for more information about the goals of this project.
This service is provided “as is”. There is no guarantee that a package works as expected, so use them at your own risk. They might kill your system (although that is rather unlikely). You’ve been warned!
The repository contains both neuroscience-related packages, as well as general purpose software which is necessary to resolve dependencies, or such that is simply useful in the neuroscience context. All featured neuroscience software packages are available from the full package list.
How to use this repository¶
The easiest way to use this repository is to download an APT-configuration file (sources.list). Simply choose your target distribution/release and download the configuration for a mirror close to you (depending on your browser, you might have to right-click and choose ‘save as’). Once downloaded, put the file in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory on your system. Moving files in this directory will require superuser privileges, therefore you should probably download the file into a temporary directory and subsequently move it into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. APT-configurations are available for the following releases and repository mirrors:
- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch): [de] [us]
- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny): [de] [us]
- Debian testing (squeeze): [de] [us]
- Debian unstable (sid): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS “Dapper Drake” (dapper): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” (edgy): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” (gutsy): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS “Hardy Heron” (hardy): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” (intrepid): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” (jaunty): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” (karmic): [de] [us]
- Ubuntu upcoming release “Lucid Lynx” (lucid): [de] [us]
Note
Thanks to the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Magdeburg, and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College for hosting a mirror.
If your are interested in mirroring the repository, please see the Frequently Asked Questions.
Once this is done, you have to update the package index. Use your favorite package manager, e.g. synaptic, adept, or whatever you like. In the terminal you can use aptitude to achieve the same:
sudo aptitude update
Now, you can proceed to install packages, e.g.:
sudo aptitude install lipsia
Note
Not every package is available for all distributions/releases. For information about which package version is available for which release and architecture, please have a look at the corresponding package pages.
Package authentication¶
When you start using this repository, you probably get warning messages like this:
The following signatures couldn't be verified because
the public key is not available.`
Or you will be asked questions like this over and over:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
...
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
This is because your APT installation initially does not know the GPG key that is used to sign the release files of this repository. Making APT happy again is easy:
Get the key. Either download the repository key from here or fetch it from http://wwwkeys.pgp.net (2649A5A9).
Now feed the key into APT by invoking:
apt-key add #file#
Where #file# has to be replaced with the location of the key file you just downloaded. You need to have superuser-privileges to do this (either do it as root or use sudo).
