NOTE: As of March 2010, there will be no more additions to the Debian Stable repository until further notice. I switched from Debian Lenny to Ubuntu Karmic on my own desktop, and the Debian Squeeze release will be here soon, so there is less impetus to update this both for me and for other users.
This little archive contains "backports" of certain engineering packages such as FreeCAD, OpenCASCADE, libMesh, deal.II, PETSc and Elmer for Debian 5.0 "Lenny". There is also a repository for Ubuntu here.
To use this repository (in an already functioning Debian system), first click to download and save the Opennovation signing key, which is the same as Opennovation Principal Adam Powell's key. (If you wish, you can verify this key by comparing it to Powell's key the Debian keyring, or check its verification fingerprint which is all over the internet.)
Then run Synaptic from the System menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Repositories dialog from the Settings menu, and do the following:
After closing the Repositories dialog and clicking Reload, you should now have Synaptic access to new packages for OpenCASCADE, deal.II, libMesh version 0.6.3, and their dependencies. To download the packages directly, open the package pool.
In the near future, the "contrib" section, which includes free software with non-free dependencies, will have a new package which will download, compile and install ATAT. That is also where FreeCAD and Salomé will go.
All of the content and formatting on this page is Copyright 2008 Opennovation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.