Debathena installation options

Several common sets of Debathena packages are grouped into metapackages for easy installation. All of the metapackages listed below have no functionality other than a list of dependencies, so you should feel free to allow them to be removed if they conflict with something that you want.

Common installation options

debathena-standard: This package gives your machine full access to Athena services, but does not configure your machine to use use Kerberos authentication and AFS home directories.
debathena-login: This package configures your system with maximal Athena integration, but does not install a graphical environment.
debathena-workstation: This package configures the machine as an Athena cluster style workstation. It contains debathena-login along with some additional dependencies useful for graphical workstations.

Other supported metapackages

debathena-clients: This package depends Athena clients that do not require AFS, like blanche, athinfo, and mailusage (the sorts of programs that are normally found in /usr/athena/bin on Athena).
debathena-locker: This package depends on programs like attach, add, athrun, etc., that deal with AFS and Athena lockers. With it, you should be able to run locker software modulo the issue of having necessary shared libraries. Statically linked locker software such as Mathematica should just work.
debathena-athena-libraries: This package recommends many shared libraries from Debian that are needed for running software in Athena lockers.
debathena-build-depends: This depends on everything needed to build all Debathena packages.

Debathena repository component options

The Debathena APT repository has several components (the items after the distribution name in the /etc/apt/sources.list line), described below.

You should add at least the debathena component, and at least one of the debathena-config or debathena-manual-config components in /etc/apt/sources.list, if you want any of the metapackages to install. We recommend the debathena-config component, but have made the debathena-manual-config component available for users who want to manage their own configuration.

The debathena component contains all the software that we have ported from Athena, along with our metapackages.
The debathena-system component contains software from Debian that we have modified to have better Athena support, including adding AFS and Hesiod support to bash and tcsh, and making kinit get Kerberos 4 tickets by default.
The debathena-config component contains packages that replace configuration files on your system using dpkg-divert.
The debathena-manual-config component contains packages that do nothing, but satisfy dependencies as though they were debathena-*-config packages. These are useful if you want to manage your own configuration Debian files.
The openafs component contains pre-built OpenAFS kernel modules for the stock kernels in the distributions we support. We haven’t tested them all, but the hope is that they will save people from building their own kernel modules when they don’t have to.