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Unix/Linux Course Software

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The following is a list of links to documentation detailing some of the Unix/Linux based software available in CSIL:

If you want to get extra software installed, please contact your instructor.

Commonly used software

Name Version Availability Command Reference
Acroread 2.2.0 CSIL Linux /usr/local/bin/acroread http://www.valgrind.org
SSH Server 4.2p1 CSIL Linux /usr/sbin/sshd Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
SSH Client 4.2p1 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/ssh Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
HTML to Text converter 1.3.2a CSIL Linux /usr/bin/html2text Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/firefox Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Postscript to PDF converter 0.3.9 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/ps2pdf Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Lynx text mode browser 2.8.5 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/lynx Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Elinks Text mode browser 0.10.6 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/elinks Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
GUI text editor 5.5-1 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/nedit Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Xemacs(graphical-based text editor) 21.4 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/xemacs Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Openoffice 2.0.2 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/ooffice Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Displays directory tree 1.5.0-2 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/tree Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Document processor 1.3.7 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/lyx Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
GNU interactive tools for a file browser 4.3.20-8 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/git Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)

Development Tools

Name Version Availability Command Reference
Awk (pattern scanning and processing language) 3.1.5 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/awk Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Data display debuger 3.3.11 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/ddd Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Bison Parser generator 2.1 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/bison Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Subversion Version control system 1.3.1 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/svn Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Xdelta generator 1.1.3 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/xdelta Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Orbit2 builder 2.14.0 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/orbit2-config Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Gnome libraries/information retrieval 1.4.2 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/gnome-config Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
OpenGL libraries Glui(2.35), glut(3.8.0) CSIL Linux /usr/lib/libglui.a /usr/lib/libglut.so Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Kdevelop programming 3.3.1 CSIL linux /usr/bin/kdevelop3 Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Forms library user interface designer 1.0 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/fdesign Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Extace Wave form viewer 1.9.4-1 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/extace Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Light-weight standard ML(SML) 2.01-0 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/mosml Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Netwide Assembler 0.98.38-1.2 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/nasm Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Structured text formatting and typesetting 3.0-13 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/latex, elatex Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Lexical analyzer generator 2.5.31 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/flex Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Lexical analyzer generator for Java 1.4.1-2 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/jflex Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
C/C++ Tools 4.1.1 CSIL Linux /usr/local/bin/gcc, g++ www.gnu.org/software/gcc
Answer-set Solver n/a CSIL Linux /usr/local/bin/clasp, claspD, gringo, clingo, iclingo http://potassco.sourceforge.net
Haskell 20050308 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/hugs http://haskell.org/hugs
Glasgow Haskell compiler 6.4.1 CSIL linux /usr/bin/ghc, ghci http://haskell.org/ghc
Java 6.0_02 CSIL Linux /usr/local/bin/java http://www.java.com
Valgrind instrumentation framework for dynamic analysis tools 2.2.0 CSIL Linux /usr/local/bin/valgrind http://valgrind.org
GNU c/c++ compiler 4.1.1 CSIL Linux /usr/local/bin/gcc, g++ http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc
Python 2.4(linux) CSIL Linux linux:/usr/bin/python http://www.python.org
Eclipse 3.3 CSIL Linux /usr/local/bin/eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
ACL (Allegro Common Lisp) 8 orion mlisp http://www.franz.com/support/
BinProlog 5.25 orion /usr/local/bin/bp http://www.binnetcorp.com/BinProlog
SICStus 11.2 CSIL Linux sicsstus http://www.sics.se/isl/sicstuswww/site/portability.html
SWI-Prolog 5.2.6 CSIL Linux pl http://www.swi-prolog.org
TCL interpreter 8.4 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/tclsh Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
VRML viewer for GTK+ 0.13.0-4 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/gtklookat Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)

Graphics image processing/tools

Name Version Availability Command Reference
Graphics manipulation programs 10.0 CSIL Linux all the commands with netpbm packages in /usr/bin Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
GTK based format image viewer 2.0.1 CSIL Linux /usr/bin/gqview Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
TK graphical user interface tool kit 8.4 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/bin/wish Ubuntu package (http://packages.ubuntu.com)
Houdini .2 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/houdini http://www.sidefx.com
BlueMoon 2.6 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/rendrib http://www.siggraph.org
AL Procedure computer animation 5.2a CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/ox http://accad.osu.edu/~smay/AL
Pixar Renderman and artist tool 12.5.2 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/render http://renderman.pixar.com
Cinelerra video capturing/editing 2.1 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/cinelerra http://heroinewarrior.com
Radiance ray-tracing 3.7.2 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/rad http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html
Povray raytracer 3.5 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/x-povray http://www.povray.org
VTK image processing/visualization 4.22 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/vtk http://www.vtk.org
Blender Animation 2.42a CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/blender http://www.blender.org
Maya Animation 8.6 CSIL graphics Linux /usr/local/bin/maya http://www.aliaswavefront.com