Open Source Medical Softwares on Arch Linux

Posted: April 20, 2010 at 11:16:00 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 290.
Last updated: April 20, 2010 at 11:16:00.

There are some medical Linux distributions available. Some of medical applications have been built based on specific distro. But the source code is open. So we can porting it to our favorite distro of choice. Since I am an archer, Arch Linux user, I try to find some medical/health related software in my operating system. In Arch, unofficial packages are maintaned by community. To be able to use community driven packages known as Arch User Repository or AUR, install yaourt (yet another user repository tool) first.

archlinuxfr/yaourt 0.9.3.2-1 A Pacman frontend with more features and AUR support

Using text editor nano, as a root, edit pacman configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

Add the repo to the bottom (change i686 with x86_64 if needed):

[archlinuxfr]
 Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

Update the repo:

sudo pacman -Syu

To installing yaourt, as root, open terminal and type:

sudo pacman -S yaourt

Then as a non root user, type the task:

yaourt -Ss medical

it means find applications using keywords 'medical' or contains 'medical' term. Here is the result:

aur/freej 0.8.1-1 (Out of Date) (8) FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation used in the fields of dance teather, veejaying, medical v aur/aeskulap 0.2.2_beta1-1 (9) Medical image viewer and DICOM client aur/xmedcon 0.10.5-1 (4) open source toolkit for medical image conversion aur/easygp-server 152-1 (0) Server package for the EasyGP medical record program aur/stardict-ani-med 2.4.2-1 (0) Korean Animal Medical dictionary for Stardict aur/stardict-med 2.4.2-1 (0) Korean Medical dictionary for Stardict aur/amide 0.9.2-2 (3) Medical Imaging Data Examiner aur/gnumed-client 0.7.0-1 (0) assist and improve longitudinal medical care aur/gnumed-server 13.0-1 (0) assist and improve longitudinal medical care

The most popular is GNUmed client and server, an electronic medical record software. The rest are aeskulap, xmedcon, and amide. But some of them are out of date. Users may edit the installation script code if needed.

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