[Bio-Linux] Bio-Linux 8 Repositories

Simon simon at calmblue.net
Wed May 13 10:01:07 EDT 2015


Hi Tim, that's brilliant, thanks.

Script looks good to me, although I think the PPA will be best for our 
situation as we're not running a GUI and the less we vary from our 
standard server build the better.

On 12/05/15 16:02, Tim Booth wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> The instructions for setting up APT stuff got quite complex since there
> are multiple repositories and associated GPG keys to handle.
>
> Most of the goodies are in the PPA:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~nebc/+archive/ubuntu/bio-linux/+packages
>
> You can add just this repo and the packages it provides should work
> fine, but if you really want all of Bio-Linux then you should run the
> upgrade8.sh script as detailed here (section 4):
>
> http://environmentalomics.org/bio-linux-installation
>
> ...and trust to my scripting to set APT up properly to pull all the
> packages.
>
> (If you don't trust my scripting and want to inspect it, run
> wget -qO- http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/downloads/bl8_only/upgrade8.sh | env UNPACK_ONLY=1 sh
> and look at the comments in upgrade_to_8.sh in the temporary folder it
> creates)
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> TIM
>
> On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 14:51 +0100, Simon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a server with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed and would like to add
>> the Bio-Linux repositories for Bio-Linux 8.
>>
>> I can see instructions on the Bio-Linux website for adding the Bio-Linux
>> 7 repos to Ubuntu 12.04 but not for Bio-Linux 8 with 14.04.
>>
>> Could someone point me in the right direction or let me know the URLs I
>> need to add to apt's configuration in order to install Bio-Linux 8's
>> packages on a base Ubuntu 14.04 install.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Simon
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