Keeping track of Edubuntu packages

[Jordan Mantha]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Yves Combe <yves at ycombe.net> wrote:
> David Van Assche wrote:
>> Just to start a little bit of discussion here, first thanks Jordan for
>> the thorough breakdown of where we are and where we are going. In
>> terms of the Edubuntu apps, maybe we could list them here in terms of
>> importance, take a look at the versions, and suggest some extra
>> packages that should go in there,
> May i suggest immediately CaRMetal?
>
> CaRMetal is java software for dynamic geometry. I have packaged it for
> debian and is known to work on Ubuntu.
>
> Home site:
> http://db-maths.nuxit.net/CaRMetal/
> Debian package:
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/carmetal

Wow, nice app. I looked and we do in fact have carmetal in the Ubuntu
repository as of Intrepid. It would definitely be a good candidate for
Edubuntu. Does it work with openjdk-6-jre that you know of? If it does
then I think it would be fairly easy to add.

-Jordan