[Neurodebian-users] installing cmtk without sri24-atlas

[Gregory Jefferis]

Hello,

Recently we have been setting up continuous integration with travis for an R package

	https://travis-ci.org/jefferis/nat

which depends on CMTK. We are installing cmtk from neurodebian:

	http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/cmtk.html

Thanks guys!

Unfortunately 90% of the build time is spent downloading 60Mb of sri24-atlas, which is irrelevant for our tests. It appears that cmtk depends on sri24-atlas but I don't see why it should (I would have thought sri24-atlas would be a suggested package).

Is there any reason for this dependency? Is there any way I can avoid installing the sri24-atlas? 

Also while I am asking, is there a way to set a mirror preference order (the US mirrors are likely quite a bit faster than e.g. Munich which was chosen for the last build).

Many thanks,

Greg. 

PS Cross-posted to NITRC forum though not sure if right people frequent that.

$ sudo apt-get install cmtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libdcmtk2 libfftw3-3 neurodebian-popularity-contest popularity-contest
sri24-atlas
Suggested packages:
numdiff libfftw3-dev anacron
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cmtk libdcmtk2 libfftw3-3 neurodebian-popularity-contest popularity-contest
sri24-atlas
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 102 not upgraded.
Need to get 68.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 86.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main popularity-contest all 1.53ubuntu1 [30.4 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libdcmtk2 amd64 3.6.0-9 [3,855 kB]
Get:3 http://neurodebian.g-node.org/ precise/main neurodebian-popularity-contest all 0.32~nd12.04+1 [6,848 B]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libfftw3-3 amd64 3.3-1ubuntu1 [1,611 kB]
Get:5 http://neurodebian.g-node.org/ precise/main cmtk amd64 3.0.0-1~nd12.04+1 [4,175 kB]
Get:6 http://neurodebian.g-node.org/ data/main sri24-atlas all 1.02-1 [59.0 MB]
Fetched 68.7 MB in 12min 38s (90.6 kB/s)



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