Scientific Software options for Ubuntu

[Toufik]

I went further with less step

Install QT4
$ sudo apt-get install libqt4-core lib-qt4-dev

Download RPM
$ wget http://webpages.charter.net/qspencer....10-1.i386.rpm

Convert into .deb
$ sudo dpkg -d octave-workshop-0.10-1.i386.rpm

Install it
$ sudo dpkg -i octave-workshop-0.10-1.i386.deb

Then try it:
$ octave-workshop

You get libtermcap error --> search for it ($ locate libtermcap) --> it only changes name so make a symbolic link
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtermcap.so /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2

Now, I'm stuck with liboctinterp.so

octave-workshop: error while loading shared libraries: liboctinterp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But I've of course the liboctinterp.so in /usr/lib/octave-2.1.73/liboctinterp.so I guess the binary is looking at th wrong place... don't know how to correct this. I've put symbolic link everywhere... nope

Pffff

[cuonght]

I am very interested in IFEFFIT software, but I don't know how to install this soft ware in my computer. Here is a link for this
http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/download.html

Can someone help me to install it? thanks a lot!

[Toufik]

Just follow the instructions here :
http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/src/INSTALL

Rmq: You'll need that first

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

Basically, when you get source in .tar.gz format:
1) decompress the archive and enter the new directory

$ tar -xzvf xxxx.tar.gz
$ cd xxxx

2) configure the building and installation

$ ./configure

You should get messages telling if it is OK or not. In that last case, look at the problem and try to correct it by installing the missing software via apt-get. For instance, if it tells you that yyyyy is missing, then look for it:

$ apt-cache search yyyyy

You'll get some answer(s) (if not then look in the forum), let's say abcdef. Then install it via

$ sudo apt-get install abcdef

and start point 2 again.

3) When it finished ok, you can build the program:

$ make

Here also, you'll get a lot of messages, if there is a problem, look in the forum. At the end, you'll get a binary

4) Install the binary

$ sudo make install

And everything should be working and located at the right place (you can safely remove xxxx.tar.gz and the directory xxxx). To execute, type the name of the program.

Rmq: there is always (at least) one problem when installing from source... always look for a .deb first

[cuonght]

thanks for your instruction. But I still got a problem, that is, after configure, it informs an error as following:
===
=== ifeffit 1.2.8 Configuration Results:
=== linking to PGPLOT with: /home/htcuong/Desktop/ifeffit-1.2.8/src/pgstub/libnopgplot.a
===
=== could not find TERMCAP Libraries : 'make' will fail.
===
=== Please set TERMCAP_LIB in src/cmdline/Makefile or use the
=== --termcap-link argument before running make

Do you know what it is? thanks

[Toufik]

termcap is now replaced by ncurses but I don't know which packages exactly. Try to install some packages containing ncurses (probably ncurses-base, ncurses-bin and ncurses-term)

If you experience problem with an installation: open a new forum! You'll get more help with a precise title!

[olejorgen]

Zhu3D is a very nice opengl surface plotter

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43071

I had to compile it (it isn't in the repository), but it wasn't troublesome.

Does anyone know of a program like this (that support implict 3d plots) for gnome?

[sureinlux]

RLPLot is a great WYSIWYG plotting software with a shallow learning curve. Available in the repos and great for publication quality graphs.

[slaanco]

many astronomical codes that can be run on ubuntu can be found here

[Timtro]

You could consider giving Kile a try for LaTeX. It's rather nice.

TeXmaker is nice too. I hear it's from the guy who started the Kile project. There are some differences, but Texmaker loads a--lot--faster.

[Cellular]

gretl is a great package for econometrics and time series analysis. It also has some simple tools for finding p-values and doing elementary t-tests etc. It has a very easy-to-use GUI as well as a command line interface, it is easy (from what i've heard) to extend with scripts, and it can send it's data to R.

It produces plots with Gnuplot, and you can get it's output in latex format.

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/