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ITSC Unix Software

Apart from the standard applications and utilities provided by the Unix vendor's operating system, ITSC has facilitated and maintained a number of commercial and public domain software to accommodate the teaching and research needs of the HKUST community.  The software list in this page is the commercial and public domain software available in our Unix environment and most software has its own information page on how to start and how to get help.

User is advised to consult the online documentation, vendor or developer's technical support FAQ and USENET newsgroup if possible on the usage problem of the software.   For the commercial software, user can contact the vendor's technical support for assistance if they are open.  In case there is any software set up problem or you have any suggestions, please contact us .
 

The notations of the software table are as below.

Type (C/P): Software Type

C = Commercial Software
P = Public Domain Software or Freeware
Availability on: Platform
SUN5 = Solaris 10
Version number = the default version available on that platform
# of Licen: Numer of licenses
<number> = Number of floating licenses for commercial software
-               = Not applicable (if it is freeware) or unlimited
Description: Brief description of the software

Homesite/Vendor: The link to the vendor or developer's home page
 
 

Database Managements

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
Sybase
C
Server 11.x 
Client 11.1.1
server 3 
client -
A database management system Sybase
JISQL
P
2.0
-
GUI Interactive SQL Tool Sybase

Graphics and Visualization Software

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
Drawing/Plotting
gnuplot
P
 3.7
-
An interactive plotting utility Homesite
tgif
P
4.1.16
-
A 2-D drawing tool in X environment homesite
xfig
P
3.2
-
A 2-D drawing tool in X environment homesite
xmgr
P
4.1.2
-
A 2-D plotting tool in X environment homesite
xpaint
P
2.5.7
-
A color image editing tool homesite
Image Processing
jpeg
P
6b
-
JPEG image compression software homesite
tiff
P
3.5.3
-
TIFF image software homesite
xv
P
3.10a
-
An image display tool homesite

Internet Tool

Software
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
Browser
lynx
P
2.8.2
-
A text-based web browser homesite
Electronic Mail
elm
P
2.5
-
A file-based email client homesite 
metamail
P
2.7
-
A MIME utility homesite
mutt
P
0.93.2i
-
A file-based  email client homesite
pine
P
3.95
-
An IMAP supported  email client  homesite
procmail
P
3.10
-
A mail processing utility homesite
File Transfer
ncftp
P
3.1.5
-
An enhanced file transfer client homesite
NetNews
tin
P
1.4.1
-
A Netnews reader homesite

Mathematics

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
Math Software
Maple
C
5.4
3
Symbolic and numerical math Maplesoft
Mathematica
C
5.0.1
23
Symbolic and numerical math Wolfram
Matlab
C
7.0  
70
Numerical math and graphics Mathworks
Math Library
NAG Fortran Library
C
Mark 18
-
NAG numerical library NAG

Printing Utility

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
a2ps
P
 4.13
-
An any to postscript filter GNU 

Programming

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
Langages
cc
C
 5.9
SUN
C compiler SUN
C++
C
 5.9
SUN
C++ compiler SUN
expect/expectk
P
5.27
-
A tool to automate interactive applications homesite
f77
C
 8.3
SUN
Fortran 77 compiler SUN
f95
C
 8.3
SUN
Fortran 95 compiler SUN
GNU awk
P
3.1.6
-
GNU awk GNU Awk
gcc
P
 3.4.3
-
GNU C compiler GNU C/C++
g++
P
 3.4.3
-
GNU C++ compiler GNU C/C++
JDK
P
1.5.0_12
-
Java system development kit SUN
Perl
P
5.8.0 
-
Practical Extraction and Report Language homesite
Python
P
2.4.4
-
An interpreted, object-oriented  programming language homesite
tclsh
P
8.3
-
A high level programming language homesite
Debuggers
dbx
C
7.6 
-
Source-level debugger SUN
GNU debugger
P
6.6 
-
GNU debugger GNU 
xxgdb
P
1.12
-
X interface to the GNU debugger homesite
GUI/Widgets Development
Qt
C
2.0.2
-
A GUI software toolkit Troll Tech
Programming/Developemnt Utilities
bison
P
1.875
-
A parser generator in the  style  of  yacc GNU 
f2c
P
19990326
-
FORTRAN 77 to C/C++ Translator NETLIB
flex
P
2.5.4
-
Fast lexical analyzer generator GNU 
ftnchek
P
2.10.1
-
Fortran 77 program analyzer homesite
GNU diff
P
2.7
-
GNU diff utilities GNU 
GNU make
P
3.8 
-
GNU make utility GNU 
patch
P
 2.5.4
-
Apply a diff file to an original GNU 

Terminal Emulators

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
screen
P
3.9.2
-
A terminal multiplexer supports multiple screens on a single character-based terminal GNU 

Text Software

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
Text Previewers
acroread
P
7.0.8
-
A Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer Adobe Systems
ghostscript
P
 8.15.1
-
A postscript interpreter homesite
Text Processing
emacs
P
20.4
-
An extensible real-time display editor GNU Emacs
framemaker
C
5.5.6
15
Document authoring and publishing software Adobe Systems
GNU sed
P
3.02
-
A stream editor GNU sed
GNU grep
P
2.5
-
An utility to search pattern from files GNU grep
groff
P
1.2b
-
Document formatting system GNU groff
ispell
P
3.1
-
A spell check program GNU ispell
pico
P
2.9
-
A simple text editor homesite
TeX/LaTeX
P
3.14159
-
Text formatting and typesetting system homesite
TransFig
P
3.2
-
Tools to create portable LaTeX figures homesite
troff
P
2.10
-
Document formatting utility SUN

Miscellaneous Utilities

Software 
Type (C/P)
Availability on
# of Licen Description Homesite/Vendor
SUN5
File Utilities
gzip/gunzip
P
1.3.5 
-
Compress/expand files utility GNU gzip
GNU tar
P
1.14 
-
Create/extract tape archives utility GNU tar
less
P
381 
-
A display paginator GNU less
shar/unshar
P
4.2.1
-
Shell archives creation utility GNU shar
zip
P
2.3 
-
Compress/archive utility homesite
unzip
P
5.52 
-
Uncompress/extract zip archive homesite
Postscript Utilities
psutils
P
R1 p17
-
Postscript documents manipulation utility homesite
Shells
bash
P
3.0 
-
GNU Bourne-Again SHell GNU bash
tcsh
P
6.12 
-
Enhanced Berkeley UNIX C shell  homesite
ssh
P
1.1 
-
Secure shell  SUN
System Performance
top
P
3.61 
-
Utility to display top CPU processes homesite
 
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