| Package | Version | Information | Description | From | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astronomy | |||||
| astrolib | 17.Jul.2000 | Inst | IDL procedures for working with astronomical data | WWW | 17.Jul.2000 |
| cfitsio | 2.0.37 | Doc Inst | Fortran/C library for reading/writing FITS files | WWW | 08.Aug.2000 |
| deutsch | 25.Apr.2000 | Doc Inst | IDL procedures from Eric Deutsch | WWW | 17.Jul.2000 |
| ds9 | 2.0 | Doc, Inst | display program, successor of SAOtng | WWW | 05.Dec.2000 |
| SAOimage | 1.27.2 | N/A | display program | WWW | 05.May.2000 |
| saord | 1.9.1 | N/A | SAOtng, ncl, ... | WWW | 05.May.2000 |
| sextractor | 2.1.6 | Doc | Source Extractor | ftp | 10.Mar.2000 |
| skycat(gaia) | 2.6.2 | Doc | ESO Image Display (and more) tool | WWW | 26.Jun.2000 |
| sm | 2.4.6p1 | Doc | plotting package | WWW | 10.Jan.2000 |
| wcstools | 2.8.5 | Inst | WCS tools for FITS and IRAF files | WWW | 30.Oct.2000 |
| X11IRAF | 1.2 | N/A | xgterm, ximtool, ... | WWW | 02.May.2000 |
| XEphem | 3.2.3 | N/A | sky display | WWW | 16.Nov.1999 |
| Astronomy - Data Reduction | |||||
| ESO-MIDAS | 99NOVpl2.2 | Setup & Doc, Inst | image reduction | WWW | 06.Aug.2000 |
| GIPSY | 4.0 (+?) | Setup | image reduction | WWW | current |
| IDL | 5.1 | Setup | image reduction | N/A | N/A |
| IRAF | 2.11.3a | Setup & Doc | image reduction, external packages | WWW | 27.Jan.2000 |
| Starlink | Autumn 1999/ Spring 2000 |
Setup & Doc, Inst | image reduction | WWW | 09.Aug.2000 |
| Astronomy - Perl Modules | |||||
| Image::DS9 | 0.09 | Inst | perl interface to DS9 | WWW | 06.Oct.2000 |
| IPC::XPA | 0.05 | Inst | perl interface to XPA Messaging System | WWW | 06.Oct.2000 |
| XPA | 2.0.4 | Inst | XPA Messaging System | WWW | 06.Oct.2000 |
| Astronomy - Proposal Submission | |||||
| p2pp | 6 | Inst | ESO | WWW | 31.Aug.2000 |
| pit | 2.2.0.2 | N/A | Gemini | N/A | 11.Mar.2000 |
| StarView | 6 | N/A | HST database browser and reasearch analysis tool | WWW | 03.Aug.2000 |
| Astronomy - Publishing | |||||
| A&A | 5.0.1 | N/A | LaTeX macros for A&A | WWW | 15.Jun.2001 |
| AASTeX | 5.0.2 | N/A | LaTeX macros for AJ, ApJ and PASP | WWW | 15.Jun.2001 |
| Elsevier | 15Jun2001 | N/A | LaTeX macros for Journals published by Elsevier | WWW | 15.Jun.2001 |
| Kluwer | 15Jun2001 | N/A | LaTeX macros for Journals published by Kluwer | WWW | 15.Jun.2001 |
| MNRAS | 2.2 | N/A | LaTeX macros for MNRAS | WWW | 15.Jun.2001 |
| Springer | 17Jun2001 | N/A | LaTeX macros for Journals published by Springer | WWW | 17.Jun.2001 |
| Plotting and Printing | |||||
| a2ps | 4.13 | Inst | a2ps | WWW | 15.Mar.2001 |
| grace | 5.1.0 | Doc, Inst | interactive plotting tool, successor of xmgr | WWW | 12.May.2000 |
| pgplot | 5.1 | N/A | C and Fortran ploting routines | WWW | N/A |
| transfig | 3.2.3c | Inst | file conversion tool for files generated by xfig | WWW | 01.Aug.2000 |
| xfig | 3.2.3c | Doc, Inst | interactive drawing tool | WWW | 03.Aug.2000 |
| xmgr | 4.1.2 | Doc | interactive plotting tool | WWW | 02.Nov.1999 |
| yorick | 1.4 | Doc | an interpreted language for scientific computing | WWW | 12.May.2000 |
| System Utilities | |||||
| bison | 1.28 | N/A | GNU replacement for yacc | N/A | 11.Jan.2000 |
| bzip2 | 1.0.0 | N/A | compression progam | WWW | 29.May.2000 |
| flex | 2.5.4a | N/A | GNU replacement for lex | N/A | 11.Jan.2000 |
| latex2html | 99.2beta6 | N/A | Converts LaTeX to HTML format | WWW | 29.Feb.2000 |
| less | 340 | N/A | GNU replacement for more | WWW | 02.Nov.1999 |
| macutils | 2.0b3 | Inst | utilities to handle Mac file formats | WWW | 19.Dec.2000 |
| mkisofs | 1.12b5 | Inst | software to creade ISO CD images | WWW | 28.Jul.2000 |
| mpack | 1.5 | N/A | MIME pack/unpack program | WWW | 02.Nov.1999 |
| ncftp | 3.01 | Inst | better ftp client | WWW | 17.Oct.2000 |
| netpbm | 1mar94 | N/A | library and conversion tools needed by latex2html | WWW | 02.Nov.1999 |
| procmail | 3.13.1 | N/A | autonomous mail processor | N/A | 28.Jan.2000 |
| rsync | 2.3.1 | N/A | remote update program | WWW | 02.Nov.1999 |
| ssh | 1.2.27 | N/A | secure shell (user programs only) | WWW | 16.Nov.1999 |
| tar | 1.13b | N/A | GNU tar | WWW | 02.Nov.1999 |
| unzip | 5.40 | N/A | decompression progam for .zip files | N/A | 13.Dec.1999 |
| zip | 2.3 | N/A | compression progam (see also unzip) | N/A | 13.Dec.1999 |
| Other | |||||
| gimp | 1.0.4 | N/A | Graphics program (needs gtk+,jpeg,tiff,png,xpm ...) | WWW | 03.Dec.1999 |
| gtk+ | 1.2.6 | N/A | Graphics library (needs glib) | WWW | 29.Nov.1999 |
| glib | 1.2.6 | N/A | Graphics library | WWW | 29.Nov.1999 |
| IE5 | N/A | N/A | WWW browser | WWW | 18.Nov.1999 |
| jpeg | 6b | Inst | jpeg graphics format library | WWW | 03.Aug.2000 |
| png | 1.0.5 | N/A | Graphics library | WWW | 03.Dec.1999 |
| ps2eps | 1.31 | Inst | postscript to encapsulated postscript converter | WWW | 25.Jul.2001 |
| pstotext | 1.8 | N/A | postscript to ASCII text converter | N/A | 14.Jan.2000 |
| psutils | pl17 | N/A | postscript to ASCII text converter | WWW | 11.Dec.2000 |
| StarOffice | 5.1 | N/A | Office program suite | WWW | 18.Nov.1999 |
| tiff | 3.4 | N/A | Graphics library | WWW | 02.Dec.1999 |
| xpm | 3.4k | N/A | Graphics library | WWW | 03.Dec.1999 |
| zlib | 1.1.3 | N/A | compression library | N/A | 02.Dec.1999 |