Scientific Software options for Ubuntu

[mahesh]

At MIPS suggestion:
A place to tell others about software that you have found to be useful in scientific fields. Feel free to post your useful scientific software packages, and I will try to keep this first post up to date with your suggestions.


Statistics:
R
Code:

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sudo aptitude install r-recommended
LaTeX editors:
Lyx
Code:

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sudo aptitude install lyx
Kile
Code:

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sudo aptitude install kile
TeXmaker
Code:

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sudo aptitude install texmaker
Bibtex:
Pybliographer
Code:

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sudo aptitude install pybliographer
Bibliographic Database:
Bibus
Installation instructions


Spreadsheet:
Gnumeric
Code:

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sudo aptitude install gnumeric
Desktop Publishing:
Scribus
Code:

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sudo aptitude install scribus
GIS:
GRASS
Code:

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sudo aptitude install grass
QGIS
Code:

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sudo aptitude install qgis
Mathematics:
Scilab
Code:

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[/b]sudo aptitude install scilab
Some users have had issues with text showing up only in Hindi when installing scilab from the Ubuntu repos. There is a binary version available on the scilab website. Just unpack it and read the README_Unix file.

Maxima
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sudo aptitude install maxima
Octave
Code:

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sudo aptitude install octave
Last edited by akniss; January 17th, 2008 at 09:48 PM. Reason: added texmaker
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