Ubuntu Bundles
"Meta-packages" enable Debian/Ubuntu users to install bundles of software easily. They're similar in spirit to VMWare Appliances. Installing a meta-package is equivalent to installing all of its dependencies individually, but easier.
For example, say you want to start using the Subversion version control system on Ubuntu. You could just install the subversion package. This would give you a command-line Subversion client and server. If you wanted a GUI you'd have to install something like rapidsvn. To get Gnome integration, you might want to add nautilus-script-collection-svn as well. You could install the whole lot by installing each package individually: sudo apt-get install subversion rapidsvn nautilus-script-collection-svn. However, the meta-package approach offers several advantages:
* They're easier to distribute. If they're in a package repository, users can install them like any other package; if not, Ubuntu users can download and double click your meta-package to install its constituents.
* They're more logical. It makes more sense for microbiologists to install med-bio than all of the specific applications it suggests.
* They're upgradable. When a new microbiology application is added to med-bio, everybody using that meta-package gets it automatically.
Also:
So, a little while ago, I wrote about setting up Subversion repositories, and I promised a second part. This isn’t it. A friend of mine is currently having trouble setting up a machine to use a a Subversion server, so here is a quick guide on setting up subversion, apache and ssh on Ubuntu.
I’ve chosen Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server as the operating system because the LAMP installation option gives a slim basic install with Apache 2 and MySQL pre-installed. It is supported with updates until 2011, and the minimum requirements are quite low (64MB RAM, 500MB disk space), so you can run your Subversion server on any old hardware you have lying around.
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