# Umbrella for easy installation |Environment|Status| |---|---| |[BioC-release](https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/alabaster.html)|[](http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/release/bioc-LATEST/alabaster/)| |[BioC-devel](https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/alabaster.html)|[](http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/alabaster/)| This is an umbrella package that enables easy installation of all packages in the [**alabaster**](https://github.com/ArtifactDB/alabaster.base) framework. It allows users to pull down all relevant packages with a single `BiocManager::install()` call, allowing them to (un)serialize every known resource. Of course, the flipside is that the R installation may now contain a lot of transitive dependencies that are not really necessary. Advanced users or developers may prefer to install individual _alabaster_ packages based on their use cases.