PRIME (and Sun workstations and servers) Installed Software
The following notes describe software and features on Prime
and the workstations that can be accessed by individual users.
This is not an exhaustive list, as the standard Unix tools and commands
are also available. If you are not sure what you are looking for,
try a keyword search on the manual pages
- man -k KEYWORD
or go to the Sun web site with all of the manuals for
Solaris
or just the manual for
User Commands,
or try google for more information.
Extra Software List
Specific software packages that have been installed on Prime,
and the location/method of reading the documentation for them, are:a
Compilers, interpreters and debuggers.
- Sun Sparc C and C++ - man cc or man CC and
- Sun FORTRAN 77 and 90 - man f77 or man f90 and
- GNU C and C++ (ver 2.8.1) - man pages (man gcc and man g++)
- Lisp is available as gnu common lisp - man gcl
- Lisp is also available in emacs. Documentation is avaliable in the
BIG on-line documentation.
- Prolog (ver 3.1.2) - man pl and
on-line documentation.
- Perl (5.005.02) - man pages (man perl) or
on-line documentation.
-
Scheme - Dr.Scheme (ver 372) -
on-line documentation.
- drscheme -- the Scheme development environment
- mzscheme -- a text-only Scheme interpreter
- mred -- a graphical Scheme interpreter
-
- gdb (ver 4.17) - gnu debugger - man gdb and
on-line documentation.
- ddd visual debugger
Spreadsheet
- xspread - X11 or terminal based spreadsheet. It will autodetect if
you are on a workstation or a terminal. Use man xspread for
quick documentation, or read the documentation in the
postcript or
HTML format manual.
Web browsers
- Lynx - web browser for terminals and batch processing
- Links - Updated version of lynx web browser for terminals and batch processing
- Netscape - old web browser for work stations.
- Firefox - New web browser for work stations.
mail programs
- elm
- any web browser - https://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/squirrelmail.prime/src/login.php
- /usr/ucb/mail
- mailx
Text Processors, preprocessors, editors....
- emacs - if using ssh, run as emacs -nw
- xemacs - mouse enable, on workstations or with Xwindows.
- pico, nano - replacement for pico, vi, vim (new version of vi)
- tex - both tex and latex are available.
- tth - tex (and latex) to htmp converter. Use man tth or
on-line web documentation.
- latex2gif - shell script to convert latex documents to gif files.
- ps2gif - shell script to convert postscript file to gif file.
- texi2html - texiinfo to html converter - man texi2html.
- Staroffice - Ver 7 - Sun's version of Microsoft Office. Execute as soffice.
- Openoffice - Ver 2.3 - Open source version of Staroffice. Execute as ooffice.
New User's Guide
Graphics/picture utilities
- Dia - chart drawing software
- The Gimp - ver 2.0.2b- like photoshop.
Compression/uncompression utilities
- compress - standard unix compression tool
- zip (and unzip) - provided by Sun, same as the one on a pc.
- gzip ( and gunzip) - the GNU version of zip.
- bzip2 ( and bunzip2) - A public domain compression routine, with some additional
features, such as the ability to sometimes recover
compressed files that are damaged.
Networking tools - you need root to actively sniff packets!
- wireshark - network packet analysis - terminal version
- tshark - terminal mode network packet analysis
- tcpdump - packet dumper.
- tcptrace - gives stats on tcp connections
Graphics libraries
- gd - dynamic create of images gd homepage.
- fltk - Fast Light Toolkit (cross-platform GUI builder) Homepage
- glut - OpenGL Utility Tookkitk Homepage
- netpbm -
- SDL - access to keyboard, mouse, audio, 3d hardware via OpenGL Homepage