Software George has installed for you
Miscellaneous collection of programs and tools that I have installed and occasionally update. I do this less than I used to because I spend most of my time on my OSX box these days.
In alphabetical order:
- audacity: Free audio editor and recorder
- autoconf: GNU Project configurator
- automake: GNU Project makefile maker
- cadaver: Command-line WebDAV client
- cinelerra: Movie studio in a Linux box
- cvs: Concurrent Versions System
- dviselect: Extract pages from DVI files
- Firefox: Mozilla Project web browser
- gcc: GNU Project compiler collection
- gtar: GNU Project archiving utility
- Mozilla: Mozilla Project integrated suite
- SoX: Universal sound sample translator
- Sunbird: Mozilla Project calendar app
- Thunderbird: Mozilla Project mail client
To use all these programs in place of the default installed versions, add
/u/ferguson/bin-linux to the start of your
PATH (see
SettingUnixSearchPath for details).
To use only some of the programs, create
$HOME/bin and add it to your
PATH. Then create a symlink from there to the program(s) you want in
/u/ferguson/bin-linux.
To get the manpages (if there are any), add
/u/ferguson/man to your
MANPATH. I also try to link relevant Info files from
/u/ferguson/info if you care.
If you just have to see under the hood, everything is installed in
/u/ferguson/sw, with links to relevant parts in the
bin-linux and
man directories.
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GeorgeFerguson - 06 May 2005
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GeorgeFerguson - 05 Aug 2005: Updated for FC3
Software from Matt
I installed the following programs as personal need arose, and I keep the ones I use up to date.
In alphabetical order:
- gnuplot 4.3 (
gnuplot): beta version with awesome new features!
- graphviz 2.2 (
dot, neato): the open source graph-visualization project from AT&T
- ncftp 3.2.0 (
ncftp): a good command-line ftp client
- praat 4.2.0.9 (
praat): audio transcription tool
- open: my (evolving as needed) implementation of OS X's excellent
open program
- RealPlayer 10.0.7.785 (
RealPlayer/realplay): Real Audio player
- RealVNC 4.1.1 (
vncviewer, vncconfig, vncpasswd, vncserver)
- rrdtool 1.2.11 (
rrdtool): the round robin database, a great graphing and logging tool
-
satz-rand 5.0: randomized SAT solver
-
strfile: reads a specially formatted file and builds a database for use by fortune.
-
zchaff: SAT solver
I use Window Maker and have also installed some handy wapps:
-
wmpinboard: post TODO notes, set alarms
-
wmnet: monitor network usage (run with wmnet -l -x 10000000)
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wmCalClock: displays the time and date
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wmcpuload: cpu usage
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wmbluemem: physical memory and swap usage
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wmint: interrupt monitor
All of these are installed under
/u/post/r, which resembles the root of a file system. To use them, it will probably be easiest to append
/u/post/r/bin to your PATH environment variable.
Important: never put directories writeable by any user at the front of your PATH!
Software From Ben
My personal collection is stored in ~vandurme/local/, organized in a manner similar to /usr/local/.
General software:
- lyx (semi-WSIWYG for LaTeX )
- Windowmaker (X window manager)
- Openbox (X window manager)
- x2vnc (see SoftwareKVM)
- ocaml (O'Caml programming language)
- unison (superior alternative to rsync)
- SBCL (derivative of CMU Lisp)
- gaim (instant messenger client)
- zsh (tcsh or bash replacement)
- w3m (console based web browser)
- xterm256 (X.org xterm compiled with extended color support)
Lisp libraries, stored in ~vandurme/local/lib/lisp:
- asdf-install
- cl-ppcre (perl-speed (or faster) regular expressions)
- clsql (database integration)
- matlisp (wrapper around BLAS and LAPACK for fast matrix manipulation)
- NEW (Sep 15 '05): araneida (small webserver w/ broad platform support)
Emacs packages, stored in ~vandurme/local/lib/emacs[/site-lisp]:
- jde (java IDE)
- cedet (required by jde, amongst others)
- ecb (window management within emacs)
- bbdb ("Big Brother Database", advanced/automated email address book)
- slime (interface for Lisp development)
- vm (nice email program)
- w3m-mode (good for browsing html documentation while developing)
My own:
- google-soap-interface (Allegro Lisp implementation of SOAP API)
- voted-perceptron (Lisp implementation of kernelized vp)
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BenjaminVanDurme - 31 Aug 2005