Software installed under Linux

From WikIRI

Software packages installed under the Linux in all our computers

The base system is the last version of Kubuntu.

If you have a plain Ubuntu you can move to Kubuntu installing the kubuntu-desktop package.

System packages

• synaptic (alternatively adept): to install new software packages,
• cups (with cups-client + cups-bsd): printer configuration
• ssh: To access remote computers. See Ssh password-less access to Haydn
• sshfs: To access disk in other computers (including haydn!) using ssh
• tcsh: One shell
• bash: The other shell
• rdesktop (recall that the rdesktop server is salieri): Simple access to a windows machine
• Nvidia drivers: Hardware accelerated graphical drivers.
• Java (by Sun): the official Java system

Graphic desktop

• Kde: The desktop environment.
• Gnome (optionally). If you prefer gnome you can still use kde applications.

Edition tools

• latex (textlive with all the extra packages): to compile your texts.
• Kile: A nice front end for latex
• Openoffice: An alternative to Word and company
• koffice: Another alternative to Word and company
• Xemacs: The best editor ever :)
• nano: A simple ascii editor (you can use it even in the terminal), Alternative to vi or vim.
• nedit: Another simple editor.

Visualization tools

• Acrobat: official tool to visualize PDFs
• gv: To visualize postscripts.
• gs: The basic tool to manipulate postscripts
• pdftk: To manipulate PDFs

Developing tools

• gcc: THE C compiler
• Kdevelop: An IDE (integrated developing environemnt)
• gdb: THE debugger
• ddd; A front end for gdb
• cvs: A versioning system. Instructions to access the cvs repositories at IRI are somewhere in wikIRI. Those repositories include code and papers.
• cervisia: A front-end to cvs.
• subversion: A modern alternative to cvs. Some of our projects now use subversion.
• valgrind: A nice tool to catch memory access errors in your programs.
• bison: A parse generator
• flex: A lexical analizers generator
• Qt-designer: To develop graphical interfaces.
• cmake: An modern alternative to the automake tools. Useful to automatically generate makefiles and project files in different architectures. Use this to make your developed software portable.

Graphic edition

• gimp: The best pixel-based graphical editor
• xfig: The oldest (best :) vector graphic editor.
• transfig: A tool to manipulate xfig files.
• geomview: A tools to visualize 3D geometry.
• image magick: A tool to manipulate graphical files.
• pstoedit: A tool to convert eps files to an editable format (e.g. xfig)
• inkscape: A modern alternative to xfig.

Multimedia

• mplayer: The movie player
• xine: The other movie player
• k3b: To burn CDs and DvDs
• kuicshow: Nice tool to visualize series of images
• kino: A movie editor
• kdenlive: Another movie editor
• transcode: The magic tool to deal with video files, frames, convert between formats, etc. Check wikIRI to find out how to use transcode.
• ffmpeg: To manipulate mpeg files.

Internet tools

• Firefox: THE web browser
• Thunderbird: THE e-mail reader
• Quanta: To develop web pages

Mathematical tools

• Matlab: Matlab
• Maple: Maple

Tools to control robots

(in the Lab. computers)

• Player: (with liboost, libltd and opencv): A middleware
• Orca: A middleware
• minicom: for serial communications

Tools to access cameras

(in the Lab. computers)

• coriander2: A tool to access images obtained with firewire cameras.
• libraw1394: libraries to access the firewire stream.
• libraw-dev: libraries to develop code that access the firewire stream.
• libdc2: Modern libraries to access firewire video streams.