plink for Debian ---------------- plink is a very fine piece of software and the world should thank the authors for their efforts. plink knows how to interact with gplink and haploview. The packaging of the latter is already being prepared. The prior still seeks a maintainer. Users of plink may also be interested in other packages the that Debian-Med.alioth.debian.org community has brought ot Debian, e.g. r-cran-qtl and general packages for bioinformatics research. Name conflict with plink from ssh clone putty ============================================= At http://bugs.debian.org/503367 you can read the full discussion about a name clash between one component of the frequently used ssh software putty and plink. The short story is: We are facing a name clash in the Free Software universe and we have to circumvent this somehow. Following the arguing in the bug discussion the plink package has to do the name change. So we found the following solution: 1. The plink executable will be copied to /usr/lib/plink/plink 2. A symlink /usr/bin/p-link points to this location. So if you want to use plink with its original name just do the following: Set the PATH variable like export PATH="/usr/lib/plink:$PATH" or alternatively set a symlink into a directory which is normally in your PATH anyway like ln -s /usr/lib/plink/plink /usr/local/bin/plink if /usr/local/bin is in your PATH. This makes sure that scripts you are using will find the correct plink executable. -- Andreas Tille Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:28:25 +0200