Extra Software List - see /usr/local/Index for latest version

Categories

META control packages

Compilers, interpreters and debuggers.

Software development packages

Web browsers/downloaders

MAIL PROGRAMS

Text Processors, preprocessors, editors....

Graphics/picture utilities

Graphics libraries

Data bases

PROGRAM/SYSTEM BUILDING UTILITIES

Software Version Control Systems

Networking tools - you need root to actively sniff all packets, but you can see your own!

Compression/uncompression utilities

Communcations, file transfer programs

Various Helper programs/systems, Gnu util programs

General libraries, located in /usr/local/lib unless noted:

Apache software

Freedesktop.org (X.org) software

General Gnu libraries

Gnu Security/encryption related packages

Additional security, encryption, authentication libraries

Computational libraries

Other general libraries

Electrical Engineering Packages

META control packages

VirtualBox - virutal machine software (i386 machines only.) Get the user manual from THIS PAGE

Get virtural machine images for various operating systems from:

virtualboximages.com

virtualboxes.org.

MPICH2 - Distributed processing software (p1,p2,odd and even machines)

Documentation:

README - quickstart

Docmentatation list

Compilers, interpreters and debuggers.

Sun Sparc C and C++ - man cc or man CC and

Sun FORTRAN 77 and 90 - man f77 or man f90 S

BlueJ - interactive Java envirionmant on-line documentation.

GNU ada (ver 4.5.2) - man pages (man ada)

GNU C and C++ (ver 4.5.2) - man pages (man gcc and man g++)

Lua - scripting language - on-line documentation.

Lisp is available as gnu common lisp - man gcl

Lisp is also available in emacs. Documentation is avaliable in the BIG on-line documentation.

/bin/Perl (5.8.4) - man pages (man perl) or on-line documentation.

/usr/local/bin/Perl (5.14.1) - man pages (man perl) or on-line documentation.

Prolog (ver 3.1.2) - man pl and on-line documentation.

Python (ver 2.4) - on-line documentation.

R (ver 2.13.1) in /usr/local/bin/ - on-line documentation.

Ruby (ver 1.9.2p136) - on-line documentation ruby-doc.

Scheme - Dr.Scheme (ver 372) - on-line documentation.

drscheme -- the Scheme development environment

mzscheme -- a text-only Scheme interpreter

mred -- a graphical Scheme interpreter

gdb (ver 7.2) - gnu debugger - man gdb and on-line documentation.

ddd visual debugger

discover - program to find bad memory accesses in dynamic memory for c programs.

use discover as:

cc -g SOURCE -l PMGNAME

discover -w - -o PGMTORUN PGMNAME

./PGMRORUN

uncover - shows the code executed in a program when testing the program. Allows you to see what code you have not yet tested.

analyzer - graphical interface to output produced by discover and uncover.

Software development packages

Eclipse Java development platform.

spin - Formal verification of software systems. Spin homepage and documentation.

ispin - graphical interface to spin.

graphviz - graph visualization software. on-line documentation.

Web browsers/downloaders

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more.

lynx - web browser for terminals and batch processing

links - Updated version of lynx web browser for terminals and batch processing

elinks - another text based web browser. Online documentation is here.

firefox - Version 2? of the web browser

firefox3 - Version 3 of the web browser

wget is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals etc, for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

MAIL PROGRAMS

elm is an OLD email reader on some machines that is supposed to be easy to use. It is unsuported since 1997.

pine is a small, outdate text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Unsupported, use alpine instead.

mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems.

alpine a fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users (or so they say). It is the successor to pine.

Web mail via any web browser

/usr/ucb/mail A command line unix mail reader/sender, BSD version.

mailx - A unix mail reader/sender, system V version.

Text Processors, preprocessors, editors....

pico a VERY simple text composer.

nano - replacement for pico, vi, vim (new version of vi)

emacs - if using ssh, run as emacs -nw

xemacs - mouse enable, on workstations or with Xwindows.

tex - both tex and latex are available.

tth - tex (and latex) to htmp converter. Use man tth or on-line web documentation.

latex2gif - shell script to convert latex documents to gif files.

ps2gif - shell script to convert postscript file to gif file.

gs (ghostscript) http://www.ghostscript.com/ 8.63 2009-1-22

texi2html - texiinfo to html converter - man texi2html.

Staroffice - Ver 7 - Sun's version of Microsoft Office. Execute as soffice.

Openoffice - Ver 3.1 - Open source version of Staroffice. Execute as ooffice. New User's Guide

Graphics/picture utilities

dia A diagram creation tool that supports UML modeling.

The Gimp - photomanipulation like photoshop.

Graphics libraries

gd - dynamic create of images gd homepage.

fltk - Fast Light Toolkit (cross-platform GUI builder) Homepage

glut - OpenGL Utility Toolkit (rather old) Homepage

glew - The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library. Basic usage pages

netpbm -

SDL - access to keyboard, mouse, audio, 3d hardware via OpenGL Homepage

Data bases

sqlite - mini verison of mysql Documentation.

mysql - free, generic data base Documentation.

bdb - berkeley data base

BDB - Berkeleydb

PROGRAM/SYSTEM BUILDING UTILITIES

pkgconfig a helper tool used when compiling applications and libraries. It helps you insert the correct compiler options on the command line.

gm4 (GNU M4) is the Gnu implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor.

ake/manual/index.html> automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in' files suitable for use with Autoconf.

autoconf an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.

bison Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-free grammar into an LALR(1) or GLR parser for that grammar, upwardly compatible with YACC.

flex a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text.

ggrep (gnu grep) an extended version of grep.

gmake (gnu make) is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

cmake a cross platform, open-source build system.

libtool is a generic library support script.

Software Version Control Systems

CVS is a version control system. Using it, you can record the history of your source files.

SVN an open source version control system that superceeds and is is very similar to CVS,

git a "faster" version control system, with a large amount of on-line documentation.

Mercurial a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

Networking tools - you need root to actively sniff all packets, but you can see your own!

wireshark an network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of experts.

tshark terminal mode version of wireshark - Xwindows not required.

tcpdump - dump traffic on a network

tcptrace - gives stats on tcp connections

nmap - Network MAPper - utility for network exploration or security auditing. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), and a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff).

libpcap The Packet Capture library provides a high level interface to packet capture systems. All packets on the network, even those destined for other hosts, are accessible through this mechanism.

libsmi ,/a> s a C library that allows network management applications to access SMI MIB module information through a well-defined API.

Compression/uncompression utilities

zip (and unzip) - provided by Sun, same as the one on a pc.

gzip ( and gunzip) - the GNU version of zip.

bzip2 ( and bunzip2) - A public domain compression routine, with some additional features, such as the ability to sometimes recover compressed files that are damaged.

gunzip	gzexe	gzip	zcat
zcmp	zdiff	zforce	zgrep
zless	zmore	znew

zlib compression library.

gtar (gnu tar) provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation.

gzip a popular data compression program, which includes the programs:

Standard unix compression tools (see man pages) - compress, p7zip

Communcations, file transfer programs

rsync an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

Various Helper programs/systems simple file system browser.

pilot

Gnu binutils - The link to documentation at Gnu ON THIS PAGE.

Gnu Coreutils - Documentation at Gnu HERE. Note that all binaries are are compile with names starting with a "g", such as Gnu cp is gcp in /usr/local/bin.

lsof (see man page for documentation) - shows which programs have a file open.

General libraries, located in /usr/local/lib unless noted:

Gnome related libraries - local compilations, not OS distributions:

glib provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

atk provides the set of accessibility interfaces that are implemented by other toolkits and applications

pango is the core text and font handling library used in GNOME applications.

gdk-pixbuf is a library for image loading and manipulation.

GDK An intermediate layer which isolates GTK+ from the details of the windowing system.

gtk+ is the primary library used to construct user interfaces in GNOME applications. It provides user interface controls and signal callbacks to control user interfaces.

libffi - A Portable Foreign Function Interface Library

libgnome provides a number of useful routines for building modern applications, including session management, activation of files and URIs, and displaying help. WILL BEDEPRECATED.

libbonobo Bonobo is a framework for creating reusable components for use in GNOME applications, built on top of CORBA. WILL BEDEPRECATED.

ORBit2 ORBit is a fast and lightweight CORBA server. WILL BE DEPRECATED.

libIDL - Creates trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files.

orbitcpp - c interface definitions to ORBit.

Cairo Cairo Documentation Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices

dbus-1 D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.

dbus-glib Glib bindinds for D-Bus.

intltool - gnome tool to internationalize messages.

libxml2 Powerful and feature complete XML handling library.

expat is an XML parser library written in C

poppler a PDF rendering library.

libspectre a PDF rendering library.

Apache software

Apache Ant - manual To use Apache Ant, set the environment variale ANT_HOME to /usr/local/ant
and add /usr/local/ant/bin to your PATH environment variable.

Apache Portable Runtime library - apr APR core library.

Apache Portable Runtime library - apr-util APR utilities.

Apache Portable Runtime library - apr-iconv APR a portable implementation of the iconv() library

Freedesktop.org (X.org) software

render

renderproto

General Gnu libraries

readline - is the GNU readline library.

gettext utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages.

GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads. Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (aka ``multithreading'') inside event-driven applications.

Gnu Security/encryption related packages

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard - allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. Both versions 1 and 2 are available.

Pinentry is a small collection of dialog programs that allow GnuPG to read passphrases and PIN numbers in a secure manner.

libgpg-error is a small library with error codes and descriptions shared by most GnuPG related software.

libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG.

libassuan is the IPC library used by some GnuPG related software.

libgtls - the GNU Transport Layer Security Library

gpgme GnuPG Made Easy - is a C language library that allows to add support for cryptography to a program. It is designed to make access to public key crypto engines like GnuPG or GpgSM easier for applications.

libksba a library to make the tasks of working with X.509 certificates, CMS data and related objects more easy.

libtasn1 library developed for ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) structures management and DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoding functions.

OpencCDK - The OpenCDK library implement basic parts of the OpenPGP message format.

Additional security, encryption, authentication libraries

libfpopen is a package that negotiates which authentication method to use, especially with web servers.

libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol, dependent upon openssh or libgcrypt.

openssl A toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

sasl is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.

Computational libraries

bmplib -the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.

MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding.

Graphics Libraries - Fonts

freetype is a software font engine capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images).

fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access.

Graphics Libraries - Imaging

libpng is a free reference library for reading and writing PNGs (Portable Network Graphics)

openjpeg - The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language.

jpeg library - Old jpeg libraries used by some programs. Download documentation file Here.

pixman pixel manipulation library.

libXrender X Rendering extension library.

Xrender X Rendering Extension.

jasper is an open-soure initiative concerning JPEG-2000 codec specifications.

GraphicsMagic tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats. Programming interface documents are here.

Other general libraries

neon http/WebDAV client library, with C interface.

serf is a C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library.

pcre - Alibrary is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.

Electrical Engineering Packages

Pspice 3 including BSIM3 and BSIM4 moduels. Electronic circuit simulator.

Programs are:

spice3 - The simulator

nutmeg - A stand-alone data analysis program; Spice3 without the simulation capability.

Open Circuit Design Software

Programs are:

MAGIC VLSI layout tool

IRSIM switch-level circuit simulator

XCircuit the circuit drawing and schematic capture tool.

NETGEN netlist comparison (LVS) and format manipulation