Linux Software

Introduction

At present, the LINC Linux workstations are running 64-bit version of CentOS 5.

The software listed is not exhaustive; rather is covers software that is in addition to what is listed as the base CACS install.   This list has been divided into two sections; these are Software Via Yum and Software Built From Source.  The Software via Yum is maintained (generally) by the CACS system admins; the Software Built From Source is maintained by a member of LINC.

Software Via Yum

More or less, the software can be divided

Development Versions

1. automake
2. bison
3. 1. Parser
   2. Yacc replacement
4. byacc
5. 1. Yacc Parser
6. flex
7. 1. Fast Lexical analyzer generator
      
8. Fortran
9. 1. gfortran - For Fortran 95
   2. g77 - For Fortran 77
10. freetype-devel
11. 1. Have this if we need to build software using freetype
       
12. gnuplot
13. 1. Interactive plotting program
       
14. ImageMagick
15. 1. Image Magick programs - set of tools to covert and manipulate images from command-line
       
    2. Development Libraries - libraries needed if to you build programs to use ImageMagick api or code.
       
    3. Magick++ libraries/headers - libraries needed to use Magick++ (c++ bindings to ImageMagick api and code).
       
16. libpng-devel
17. 1. Permits the building of programs that use zlib compression/decompression
       
18. libXt-devel
19. mesa-libGLU-devel
20. 1. 3D Graphics Library
       
21. opencv-devel
22. 1. Open Source Vision Library
    2. Colllection of C functions and C++ classes implementing Image Processing and Computer Vision algorithms
       
23. Postgres - Development Libraries
24. 1. Needed to build c or C++ applications that ineract with a Postgresql database.
       
25. readline-devel
26. 1. Allows for programs to be developed that call the readline library fuctions.
       
27. tetex-latex
28. 1. A latex front end to the tex formatting system.
       
29. texinfo
30. 1. Tools need to created Texinfo format documentation files.
    2. In other words, creates both onlin and printed output documents from the same soruce file.
       
31. tcl (development)
32. 1. Libraries needed to work the tc
       
33. tk (development)
34. 1. Libraries needed to work the tc
35. wxGTK-devel
36. 1. the GTK port to the wxWidgets library.
    2. wxWidgets is a library that allows for 'portable' GUI code to be written, which, when compiled, use the 'native' OS guis.
37. X11 - development libraries
38. zlib (development)
39. 1. Libraries and headers needed to write code that uses zlib compression and decompression.
       

Software Built From Source

1. Proj4
2. 1. Does coordinate transforms (nad to UTM, and so forth).
      
3. openMPI
4. 1. Implements the MPI library and compilers
      
5. GNU R
6. 1. This is a programming language/development environment/statistical language.
      
7. keychain
8. 1. Allows the users to set up a service that, loosely speaking, has the system appear to have a passwordless ssh authentication, while still providing the passkey in the background.
   2. Useful when trying to use openMPI programs across machines, while maintaining some security.