Required Astronomical Software

From an e-mail from fernando on 27 November:

Astronomical

• IRAF ✓ (tester: patrick/alex)
• pyRAF ✓ (tester: patrick/alex)
• AIPS ✓ (tester: t_nithyanandan) RM
• MIRIAD ✓
• CIAO ✓ RM
• SAS ✓ (tester: Marc Audard, audard)
• HEASOFT ✓ (tester: Marc Audard, audard)
• IDL (license), not including astro libraries ✓ (tester: Greg Bryan, gbryan) RM
• pgplot ✓
• GIPSY
• ximtool ✓
• ds9 ✓
• tng
• karma ✓
• FFTW ✓
• Perl::Astro
• Mathematica (license, not to be installed yet)
• MySQL
• TEMPO ✓
• PRESTO
• Matlab (license, not to be installed yet)
• Scilab ✓
• XSPEC (see HEAsoft) ✓
• Spitzer tools ✓
• NAGware (license, not to be installed yet)
• GNU scientific library ✓
• FAC
• physica ✓
• numerical recipes (license, not to be installed yet)
• imagemagick ✓
• LApack ✓
• scisoft ✓ (Packaged CD: IRAF/STSDAS, ESO-MIDAS and IDL---individual packages already installed, see above)

Display/documents

• LaTex ✓(and all related packages, e.g., pdflatex, ps2pdf, etc)
• SM ✓
• ghostview ✓
• xv
• xfig ✓
• acroread ✓ (licensed but free, to be installed)
• OpenOffice ✓
• RealPlayer
• xine
• qdp
• skippy
• expocity

e-mail/browsers/editors

• Mozilla ✓
• Firefox ✓
• Thunderbird ✓
• pine ✓
• mutt ✓
• emacs ✓
• vi(m) ✓
• plugins for browsers:
  • macromedia flash
  • Sun's java JRE 1.5
  • Flash?
  • other?

Languages/compilers

• perl ✓
• PerlDL ✓
• awk ✓
• gcc ✓ (and all standard gnu compilers:
  • c++ ✓
  • fortran ✓
  • other?
• cvs ✓ (and cvs server?)
• python ✓
• tcl/tk ✓
• tcl/gk ??? what is this?
• Intel fortran compiler (license, not to be installed yet)
• g95 ✓
• gfortran
• R ✓ (suggested by dkg)

Base Ubuntu Software Dependancies/Requirements

• Base Ubuntu Software Dependacies/Requirements