[med-svn] [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianMed/HowToGet" by TimBooth

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still a work in progress

  
  == Q. How do I find out what packages Debian-Med has available? ==
  
- A.  See [[http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/|the tasks page]].  This lists the existing packages, as well as work in progress and software that has been considered by Debian Med but not packaged for various reasons.  Note that Debian Med does not have a monopoly on packaging biomedical software, and some tools are borderline as to the category they fit in and are in fact maintained by other individuals or teams, for example Debichem.  In this case, look up the package on [http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html qa.debian.org] to see who is working on it.
+ A.  See [[http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/|the tasks page]].  This lists the existing packages, as well as work in progress and software that has been considered by Debian Med but not packaged for various reasons.  Note that Debian Med does not have a monopoly on packaging biomedical software, and some tools are borderline as to the category they fit in and are in fact maintained by other individuals or teams, for example Debichem.  In this case, look up the package on [[http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html|qa.debian.org]] to see who is working on it.
  
  == Q. I can see package X listed on Debian Med.  How do I install it? ==
  
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  == Q. But I want a package that isn't in the Debian Archive, or a newer version of one that is. What can I do? ==
  
- Supporting backports (newer packages to work on an older Debian or Ubuntu base) is something we do not currently support, but we recognise that this is a common need, especially given the rate of development of many scientific applications and the understandable tendency of departments to run a Stable OS platform as opposed to Debian Testing.
+ Supporting backports (newer packages to work on an older Debian or Ubuntu base) is something we do not currently do, but we recognise that this is a common need, especially given the rate of development of many scientific applications and the understandable tendency of departments to run a Stable OS platform as opposed to Debian Testing.
  There are various ways you might try to get newer packages on your system.  These are not without their problems but may be useful for many people.
  
-  1. Install 
+  1. Install packages from the [[http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/tools/bio-linux|NEBC Bio-Linux]] project.  Bio-Linux is a customised Ubuntu distribution produced by the NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre in the UK.  Some of these packages are backported from Debian while others are manually compiled or prepared from precompiled downloads.  Bio-Linux aims to have the most popular packages no more than a month out of date.
  
+  1. Try installing packages from the newer Debian or Ubuntu release directly.  Packages can be downloaded from [[http://packages.debian.org|packages.debian.org]] or [[http://packages.ubuntu.com|packages.ubuntu.com]] respectively.
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