[Bio-Linux] USB flash-drive on Bio-linux

[Tony Travis]

Tim Booth wrote:
> [...]
> ps.  There is a system called HAL which will one day soon make all this
> stuff go away, but at the moment you only get it with Ubuntu Linux.

Hello, Tim.

Actually, it's in Sarge and Etch too. I've upgraded my Bio-Linux desktop 
(kitcat.rri.sari.ac.uk) to use Debian 'testing' as the base distribution 
instead of 'stable). I tried installing the Bio-Linux deb packages under 
'Dapper Drake' 6.06 beta 2, but it crashed and burned because "xlibs" is 
not installable - bio-linux-base-directories depends on xlibs >= 4.3.0.

There is quite a lot of discussion about xlibs vs. xlibs-dev on the 
Ubuntu forums. In fact, both xlibs and xlibs-dev are supposed to be 
'transitional' packages for migration from Debian 3.0 to 3.1. Has anyone 
else got Bio-Linux working under Ubuntu?

FYI, Here's 'hal' running on kitcat:

[root at kitcat: ~]# apt-show-versions -a hal
hal     0.5.7-1 install ok installed
hal     0.4.7-3sarge1   stable
hal     0.5.7-1 testing
No unstable version
hal/testing uptodate 0.5.7-1

[root at kitcat: ~]# uname -a
Linux kitcat 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 12:08:30 UTC 2005 i686 
GNU/Linux

[root at kitcat: ~]# lshal | more

Dumping 57 device(s) from the Global Device List:
-------------------------------------------------
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'
   info.callouts.add = {'hal-system-storage-cleanup-mountpoints'} (stri
ng list)
   org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.method_execpaths =
{'hal-system-power-suspend', 'hal-system-power-hibernate', 'hal-system
-power-shutdown', 'hal-system-power-reboot', 'hal-system-power-set-pow
er-save'} (string list)
   org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.method_signatures =
  {'i', '', '', '', 'b'} (string list)
   org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.method_names = {'Su
spend', 'Hibernate', 'Shutdown', 'Reboot', 'SetPowerSave'} (string lis
[...]

Best wishes,

	Tony.
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