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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 SoftwareAvailability on: Platform
P = Public Domain Software or FreewareSUN5 = Solaris 10# of Licen: Numer of licenses
Version number = the default version available on that platform
<number> = Number of floating licenses for commercial softwareDescription: Brief description of the software
- = Not applicable (if it is freeware) or unlimitedHomesite/Vendor: The link to the vendor or developer's home page
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| Sybase |
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Client 11.1.1 |
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A database management system | Sybase |
| JISQL |
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GUI Interactive SQL Tool | Sybase |
Graphics and Visualization Software
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# of Licen | Description | Homesite/Vendor |
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| Drawing/Plotting | |||||
| gnuplot |
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An interactive plotting utility | Homesite |
| tgif |
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A 2-D drawing tool in X environment | homesite |
| xfig |
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A 2-D drawing tool in X environment | homesite |
| xmgr |
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A 2-D plotting tool in X environment | homesite |
| xpaint |
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A color image editing tool | homesite |
| Image Processing | |||||
| jpeg |
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JPEG image compression software | homesite |
| tiff |
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TIFF image software | homesite |
| xv |
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An image display tool | homesite |
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# of Licen | Description | Homesite/Vendor |
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| Browser | |||||
| lynx |
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A text-based web browser | homesite |
| Electronic Mail | |||||
| elm |
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A file-based email client | homesite |
| metamail |
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A MIME utility | homesite |
| mutt |
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A file-based email client | homesite |
| pine |
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An IMAP supported email client | homesite |
| procmail |
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A mail processing utility | homesite |
| File Transfer | |||||
| ncftp |
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An enhanced file transfer client | homesite |
| NetNews | |||||
| tin |
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A Netnews reader | homesite |
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# of Licen | Description | Homesite/Vendor |
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| Math Software | |||||
| Maple |
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Symbolic and numerical math | Maplesoft |
| Mathematica |
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Symbolic and numerical math | Wolfram |
| Matlab |
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Numerical math and graphics | Mathworks |
| Math Library | |||||
| NAG Fortran Library |
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NAG numerical library | NAG |
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# of Licen | Description | Homesite/Vendor |
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| a2ps |
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An any to postscript filter | GNU |
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# of Licen | Description | Homesite/Vendor |
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| Langages | |||||
| cc |
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C compiler | SUN |
| C++ |
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C++ compiler | SUN |
| expect/expectk |
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A tool to automate interactive applications | homesite |
| f77 |
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Fortran 77 compiler | SUN |
| f95 |
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Fortran 95 compiler | SUN |
| GNU awk |
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GNU awk | GNU Awk |
| gcc |
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GNU C compiler | GNU C/C++ |
| g++ |
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GNU C++ compiler | GNU C/C++ |
| JDK |
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Java system development kit | SUN |
| Perl |
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Practical Extraction and Report Language | homesite |
| Python |
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An interpreted, object-oriented programming language | homesite |
| tclsh |
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A high level programming language | homesite |
| Debuggers | |||||
| dbx |
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Source-level debugger | SUN |
| GNU debugger |
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GNU debugger | GNU |
| xxgdb |
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X interface to the GNU debugger | homesite |
| GUI/Widgets Development | |||||
| Qt |
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A GUI software toolkit | Troll Tech |
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| bison |
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A parser generator in the style of yacc | GNU |
| f2c |
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FORTRAN 77 to C/C++ Translator | NETLIB |
| flex |
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Fast lexical analyzer generator | GNU |
| ftnchek |
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Fortran 77 program analyzer | homesite |
| GNU diff |
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GNU diff utilities | GNU |
| GNU make |
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GNU make utility | GNU |
| patch |
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Apply a diff file to an original | GNU |
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| screen |
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A terminal multiplexer supports multiple screens on a single character-based terminal | GNU |
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| Text Previewers | |||||
| acroread |
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A Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer | Adobe Systems |
| ghostscript |
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A postscript interpreter | homesite |
| Text Processing | |||||
| emacs |
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An extensible real-time display editor | GNU Emacs |
| framemaker |
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Document authoring and publishing software | Adobe Systems |
| GNU sed |
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A stream editor | GNU sed |
| GNU grep |
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An utility to search pattern from files | GNU grep |
| groff |
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Document formatting system | GNU groff |
| ispell |
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A spell check program | GNU ispell |
| pico |
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A simple text editor | homesite |
| TeX/LaTeX |
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Text formatting and typesetting system | homesite |
| TransFig |
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Tools to create portable LaTeX figures | homesite |
| troff |
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Document formatting utility | SUN |
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# of Licen | Description | Homesite/Vendor |
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| File Utilities | |||||
| gzip/gunzip |
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Compress/expand files utility | GNU gzip |
| GNU tar |
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Create/extract tape archives utility | GNU tar |
| less |
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A display paginator | GNU less |
| shar/unshar |
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Shell archives creation utility | GNU shar |
| zip |
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Compress/archive utility | homesite |
| unzip |
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Uncompress/extract zip archive | homesite |
| Postscript Utilities | |||||
| psutils |
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Postscript documents manipulation utility | homesite |
| Shells | |||||
| bash |
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GNU Bourne-Again SHell | GNU bash |
| tcsh |
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Enhanced Berkeley UNIX C shell | homesite |
| ssh |
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Secure shell | SUN |
| System Performance | |||||
| top |
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Utility to display top CPU processes | homesite |
