Scientific Software options for Ubuntu
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
http://www.r-project.org/
Code:
sudo aptitude install r-recommended
LaTeX editors:
Lyx
http://www.lyx.org/
Code:
sudo aptitude install lyx
Kile
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
Code:
sudo aptitude install kile
TeXmaker
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
Code:
sudo aptitude install texmaker
Bibtex:
Pybliographer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pybliographer/
Code:
sudo aptitude install pybliographer
Bibliographic Database:
Bibus
http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/....php/Main_Page
Installation instructions
Spreadsheet:
Gnumeric
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
Code:
sudo aptitude install gnumeric
Desktop Publishing:
Scribus
http://www.scribus.net/
Code:
sudo aptitude install scribus
GIS:
GRASS
http://grass.itc.it/
Code:
sudo aptitude install grass
QGIS
http://qgis.org/
Code:
sudo aptitude install qgis
Mathematics:
Scilab
http://www.scilab.org/
Code:
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
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Code:
sudo aptitude install maxima
Octave
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
Code:
sudo aptitude install octave
Re: Scientific Software options for Ubuntu
You could consider giving Kile a try for LaTeX. It's rather nice.
Re: Scientific Software options for Ubuntu
there is also some good info on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists
i am looking forward to having a science forum :-)
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I would (unfortunately) add qemu for those who have no time to learn a new program and need solution right away (thus using Windows)... again, unfortunately.
PS. SPSS => R != GUI => qemu + keku + SPSS
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Hey! None of you Ubuntu scientists would happen to be social scientists, would you? And if you are (or not) would you happen to know how to get the latest version of PSPP from CVS? When I do the first step described in their instructions (make -f Smake) it works for a while, then prints out a lot of commented "include" statements, and then the following:
Code:
Don't forget to
- add "gl/Makefile" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac,
- mention "gl" in SUBDIRS in Makefile.am,
- mention "-I gl/m4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am,
- invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC,
- invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac.
autoreconf --install
aclocal: configure.ac: 12: macro `AM_PROG_CC_C_O' not found in library
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
make: *** [all] Error 1
Does anybody know how to fix this problem with what could be very good scientific software?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barrakketh
You could consider giving Kile a try for LaTeX. It's rather nice.
a how to for texmaker and kile with texlive in my signature.... :mrgreen:
even some instructions on getting kile from source without tetex ....:KS
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I just got Bibus working also by following the howto at this thread:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ighlight=bibus
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Hi there,
For those interested in physical/chemical modelling I did find an open source multiphysics package similar to COMSOL (formerly FEMLAB), I haven't compiled yet, however I will work on this shortly, The name of the package is ELMER, developed by a Finnish institute, there are binaries for download for Win32, Linux RPM, Mac, etc... the source code is available to download as well.
Hope this helps
http://www.csc.fi/elmer/index.phtml
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Has anyone used or tried the ChemicalInventory package listed on the Science Wiki? Just curious if it is functional enough to warrant giving it a try...