Locally Installed Software
Last updated: Sun Jun 13 05:15:13 2004
The following programs and packages have been installed locally in
addition to the standard programs distributed with Solaris:
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123 - Lotus 123 spread sheet - man 123
a2ps - Formats an ascii file for printing on a postscript printer - man a2ps
acad - AutoCAD R12 - online help
acedb - A Caenorhabditis elegans Database -
acroread - Adobe Acrobad .pdf viewer -
aggis - Convert to/from IP CIDR notation - man aggis
amanda - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver - man amanda
arc - ESRI Arc/Info GIS software - online help
archie - Interface to Anonymous FTP archive search - man archie
arcview - ESRI ArcView GIS software - online help
bash - Bourne-Again SHell - man bash
bison - GNU YACC implementation - man bison
bzip2 - Data compression package - man bzip2
calc - Arbitrary precision calculator - man calc
callpager - Send a message to a KSU pager - man callpager
cdecl - C declaration to english translator - unknown
checkuser - Mail debugging script -
cjpeg - Compress an image file to a JPEG file - man cjpeg
clisp - Common Lisp Interpreter - man clisp
color_edit - Color editor, hacked for the fvwm2 stuff -
color_xterm - Xterminal program with support for color - man color_xterm
contool - Contool - A Better X Console Window - man contool
cxterm - Chinese Xterm - man cxterm
dclock - Very basic, no frills digital clock - man dclock
dejagnu - -
dvips - Convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript - man dvips
elm - Elm -
emacs - GNU Emacs -- editor, lisp interpreter, kitchen sink - info -f emacs
expect - Programmed dialogue for interactive programs - man expect
f2c - Convert Fortran 77 to C or C++ - man f2c
f2c - Fortran to C translator - man f2c
fetchmail - POP/IMAP transfer program -
filter - The filter email filtering program, split from elm. - man filter
flex - Fast lexical analyzer generator - man flex
flip - Unix<->Dos newline conversion - man flip
forward - Set/Reset/Query email forwarding address - man forward
freeze - Compression program (obsoleted by gzip) - man freeze
fsp - Anonymous-ftp style archive called FSP - man fspd
ftptool - X interface to ftp - man ftptool
fvwm - Motif styled virtual window manager for X - man fvwm
fvwm2 - Fvwm2 window manager - man fvwm2
gaintool - Audio control panel - man soundtool
gbuffy - Xbiff-like program that supports IMAP and multiple mailboxes -
gcc - GNU C, C++, Objective-C, and Java compiler - man gcc
gcg - Genetics Computer Group Wisconson Package - describe gcg
gcmp - GNU binary comparison utility -
gdb - GNU debugger - man gdb
gdbm - GNU dbm - hash database routines - man gdbm
gdiff - GNU text comparison utility -
geomview - Interactive geometric shape viewer - man geomview
gfind - GNU find utility - man gfind
ggrep - GNU grep utility (also gegrep, gfgrep) - man ggrep
ghostview - View PostScript documents using ghostscript - man ghostview
giftool - GIF image editor - giftool -h
gimp - Gnu's image manupilation program - man gimp
glut - OpenGL programming utilities - man glut
gmake - GNU make - info -f make
gnupg - The GNU Privacy Guard [www.gnupg.org.], a Free PGP replacement - man gpg
gnuplot - Ploter - in program help
graphics - The LaTeX Colour and Graphics Packages - /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphic/grfguide.ps
groff - GNU roff processor - man groff
groff - GNU text formatter - man groff
gs - Ghostscript, a PostScript interpereter - man gs
gzip - GNU compression utility - man gzip
hztty - Chinese 'zW/HZ' encoding translator for cxterm - man hztty
ileaf6 - Interleaf document processing system - online help
imap-utils - Command line programs for fetching and copying mailboxes via IMAP - man [command name]
imsl - Imsl function libraries -
indent - Utility to indent and format C program source code - info indent
info - GNU hypertext help system - man info
irc - Internet Relay Chat client program - man irc
ispell - Interactive spelling checking - man ispell
jws - Java Workshop - built-in help
kermit - Kermit file transfer protocal system - man kermit
khoros - Image processing system - unknown
kterm - Japanese xterm - man kterm
LaTeX - LaTeX extensions to TeX typesetting package - info -f latex
less - Improved version of 'more' - man less
libdes - Encrypt or decrypt data using DES - man des
libpgn - -
libtabe - Needed for xcin - man libtabe
lisrel8 - Structural Equation Modeling package - describe lisrel
lsof - List open files - man lsof
lynx - Character based WWW browser - man lynx
m4 - M4 macro processor - man m4
magic - VLSI layout editor - man magic
makepass - Encrypt passwords - man makepass
mathematica - Commercial mathematical program - within program
mathematica - Mathematica -
mathematica - Mathematica, version 4 -
mathematica - Mathematical analysis program -
matlab - Mathematics package -
matlab - Matlab - describe matlab
mcvert - Mac file format (BinHex) conversion tool - man mcvert
md5 - Secure hash (checksum) generator - man md5
metamail - Multimedia mail processing system - man metamail
mikmod - Play MOD/XM/669/S3M/MTM music files - mikmod -h
mosaic - NCSA Mosaic WWW browser - online help
move_folders - Move pine folders to IMAP - man move_folders
move_folders - Move pine folders to IMAP - man move_folders
mozilla - Mozilla web browser -
mpeg_lib - Mpeg libs, for gimp -
mpeg_play - Mpeg format animation player for X -
Mtools - Tools to access MS-DOS diskettes - describe floppy
MusicTeX - TeX addition for making sheet music - /usr/local/lib/MusicTeX
mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent - man mutt
mwm - The Motif Window Manager - man mwm
mxgdb - Motif based interface to the gdb debugger - man mxgdb
ncftp - File transfer utility (improved ftp client) - man ncftp
nedit - Motif-based X text editor - man nedit
netpbm - Toolkit for conversion of images - man pbm
netscape - Netscape -
nn - Usenet news reader - man nn
nscal - Netscape Calendar - online help
nscal - Netscape Calendar client -
ntalk - New talk program - man ntalk
p2c - Pascal to C translator - man p2c
patch - Utility to apply diffs to files - man patch
pbmplus - Graphic file conversion tools - man pbm
perl - PERL programming language - man perl
perl - PERL programming language - man perl
perl - PERL programming language - man perl
perl-curses - Curses screen handling for Perl - man Curses
perlmenu - Curses-based menus and data entry for Perl - /usr/local/lib/perl5/perlmenu
pgp - Pretty Good Privacy encryption system - man pgp
pine - The pine email agent - man pine
pine4 - The pine email client - man pine
procmail - Mail processing utilitiy - man procmail
proe - Pro/ENGINEER Modeling Tool -
pvm - Parallel Virtual Machine System Version 3 - man pvm_intro
Python - Scripting language - man python
rcs - Revision Control System - man rcsintro
rn - Usenet news reader - man trn
s-plus - The S-PLUS program - man splus6
s3mod - Play MOD/S3M music files - s3mod -h
sas - SAS statistical program - man sas
sas - Statistical analisys program - online help
sc - Simple Spreadsheet Calculator - man sc
screen - Screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation - man screen
sha - Secure Hash Algorithm - man sha
sharutils - GNU shar utilities - man shar, man unshar, man uuencode, man uudecode
silvaco - Silicon device simulation tools -
sml - Standard ML of New Jersey - man sml
soundtool - Audio waveform display - man soundtool
spice - Circuit simulator - man spice
Splus - Interactive data analisys and graphing - man Splus
Splus - Splus Data Analysis Software - man Splus
Splus - Splus Data Analysis Software - man Splus
spss - Professional Statistics Package - man spss
ssh - Secure shell - man ssh
staroffice - Star Office 5.1 - soffice -?
strn - Usenet news reader - man strn
sysinfo - Display system information - man sysinfo
tar - GNU tar - gtar --help
Tcl - Tcl command language - man Tcl
tcsh - Default interactive command-line shell - man tcsh
TeX - TeX - Typesetting program - info -f web2c
textutils - GNU Text Utilities -
tidy - Tidy up HTML web pages - man tidy
tiff - Lots of tiff related things - man {fax2ps,fax2tiff,gif2tiff,pal2rgb,ppm2tiff,ras2tiff,rgb2ycbcr,sgi2tiff}
tk - Tk programming toolkit -
tn3270 - TN3270 terminal emulator - man tn3270
top - Display information on running processes - man top
tracker - Play amiga MOD/Protracker music files - man tracker
trn - Usenet news reader - man trn
unarj - ARJ archive extraction utility - unarj
unzip - InfoZip package and compression utilities - man unzip
ups - Graphical C/FORTRAN debugger - man ups
us - UltraScan II 4.0 -- Analysis tool -
vhe - HCIL Visible Human Explorer -
vnc - Vnc viewer/server for X - man vncviewer
wget - Fetch HTTP/FTP files from the command line - man wget
WindowMaker - Window maker window manager - man wmaker
wp - Wordperfect 6.0 document processor - online help
x3270 - X based IBM3270 terminal emulator - man x3270
xanim - Multiformat animation/video/audio viewer for X - man xanim
xautolock - Automatic X display locking utility - man xautolock
xbuffy - X program to watch multiple mailboxes - man xbuffy
xco - Color viewer for X - man xco
xdelta - Sccs-delta, delta - make a delta to an SCCS file - man xdelta
xdu - Display the output of "du" in an X window - man xdu
xdvi - DVI previewer for X - man xdvi
xe - Uni-XEDIT text editor - online help
xemacs - Xemacs editor - man xemacs
xfig - Figure drawing program for X - man xfig
xgraph - Graphing program for X - man xgraph
xgrasp - Grasp format animation viewer - man xgrasp
xless - X-based less (a better "more") - man xless
xli - Image display utility (xsetbg, xview) - man xli
xmeter - X-based system perf monitor - man xmeter
xmgr - Exploratory Data Analysis tool - online help
xpaint - Simple X paint program, ver. 2.1.1 - man xpaint
xphoon - X PHase of the mOON - man xphoon
xplaygizmo - Utility to play audio files for X -
xpm - X PixMap library routines -
xrn - Usenet news reader for X - man xrn
xspread - Simple X spreadsheet tool - man xspread
xv - Interactive image display for X - man xv
xvgr - Obsolete - use "xmgr" instead - -
xviewgl - Grasp library viewer for X - man xviewgl
xxgdb - X windowing interface to GDB - man xxgdb
xyzzy - Magic word - man xyzzy
zip - InfoZip package and compression utilities - man zip
zlib - Libs needed for gimp -
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