June 2009
I need to install magma on a number of hosts.
This is a highly specialistic Mathematics package, and it's quite large.
It is also well protected with license files, and the full version I will be installing can only be downloaded with proper keys obtained from the administrators.
This is not a package I would like to put on the NFS server for anyone to read across the entire university.
Instead, I'm going to try to package it in .deb
-format, and distribute it only to the people that will use it.
(In the process, I'll pick up some packaging skills.)