I just installed XCMS 1.9.2 on my Ubuntu system. XCMS is a GPL-ed R package for metabolomics data analysis. Just for the record, you need to install the Feisty packages for NetCDF:

sudo aptitude install netcdfg-dev libnetcdf3
R CMD INSTALL --library=/usr/local/lib/R/site-library xcms_1.9.2.tar.gz

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2007/08/xcms-on-ubuntu-feisty.html.