Re: [igraph] Re: igraph-help Digest, Vol 26, Issue 23

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Bhalchandra Thatte <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Another possibility would be not to change anything, but put the
>> igraph library to a standard place like /usr/local/lib, but then you
>> would need to root to do this.
>
> At work I am unable to do that. I was wondering if at some point
> igraph will go into the regular debian or other repositories? At work
> I can ask the system admins to install it for me, but I prefer to
> install it myself in my directory so that I can install the updates
> whenever you release them. But if you contributed it to the debian or
> other projects then users would get the updates almost automatically.
[...]

igraph is in Fedora, and we provide packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
Maybe we'll submit it to the official repositories in the future. I
think that most people use igraph from R anyway, and then they can
install it as an R package easily. But I might be wrong.

Gabor