Software Available on icarus.cc.uic.edu

Icarus is a Sun Enterprise 4000 running Solaris UNIX.

Any registered UIC student is eligible for an account on icarus. Icarus can be accessed by network or dialin and it is typically used for email, newsgroups, word processing, small to medium computations, and developing and serving personal Web pages.

Larger compute-intensive tasks should be run on the ACCC's Beowulf cluster, argo.cc.uic.edu. Faculty, staff, and students with a faculty sponsor may use argo. See the argo home page for more information and instructions on how to open an account.

This document is a list of the software packages available on icarus, with links to information on their use, including, in most cases, their man pages.

• For more information on using the ACCC's UNIX servers, see UNIX 101: Quick Introduction to ACCC UNIX. Basic information on using UNIX is also available in that document: UNIX 101: Basic UNIX.
  
  
• icarus man pages online (UIC only)
  
  
• For more information on all aspects of UNIX (including UNIX shells, applications, and programming, and also detailed information on the GNU software packages, see Norman Matloff's Unix Tutorial Center. (Though the University of Utah's GNU Info Tree is perhaps a better place to look for info on GNU software.)
  
  
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• 3270, IBM 3270 emulator, for remote login to VM/CMS systems like UICVM
• acroread, X Windows reader for Adobe Acrobat .pdf files
• kermit, for file transfer from Unix to a local machine attached via a modem and a terminal emulation program supporting Kermit file transfer protocols
• Java Developers Kit, Sun Microsystem's toolkit for developing Java applets
• irc, Internet Relay Chat, a "real time" chat program
• lynx, VT100 World Wide Web browser
• mosaic, X Windows version of NCSA's Mosaic World Wide Web browser
• netscape, X Windows version of the Netscape World Wide Web browser
• pgp, Pretty Good Privacy encryption system for email and files
• ph, for online phonebook lookups
• pine, easy to use mail system for sending, receiving, and managing mail; includes a newsreader and database for email addresses
• procmail, a system for filtering incoming mail
• softlist, a command on icarus to display this list of software
• turnin, lets students submit files for a specific course so that an instructor can grade them later
• tin and trn, threaded newsreaders for VT100 connections
• xarchie, an X Windows program to search FTP sites for publicly available files
• ytalk, a more fully featured "talk" client, replacing the standard UNIX talk command
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• bison, GNU parser generator
• flex, generates lexical analyzers; a fast version of flex with more features
• g77, GNU project Fortran compiler
• gawk, GNU version of awk, UNIX's pattern scanning and processing language
• gcc and g++, GNU's integrated C and C++ compiler
• gdb, GNU source code debugger
• Java Developers Kit, Sun Microsystem's toolkit for developing Java applets
• make, GNU version of make; much more robust than the standard make command
• perl, interpreted programming and script language for UNIX
• python, an interpreted, interactive,object-oriented programming language
• rexx, Regina port of the REXX programming language
• tcl, tickle programming and script language; used with tk toolkit for X Windows programming

Note on Language Compilers on icarus

The above are all the compilers that are "officially" installed on icarus. The complete set of standard UNIX compilers (f77, pc, and so on) are also installed on icarus, but they aren't in the default path. To use them, you must add: /opt/SUNWspro/bin to your PATH variable.

In your .profile file, add:

:/opt/SUNWspro/bin

to the end of your PATH=... statement.

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• b34s, full featured econometrics package with strengths in time series and non-linear modeling
• gnuplot, GNU interactive function plotter infinite precision
• IMSL, general purpose FORTRAN subroutine library for mathematics and statistical analysis.
• minitab, the MINITAB statistical analysis system for UNIX
• octave, MATLAB clone
• speakez -e (text mode) and speakez (X Windows), interactive math package for matrix manipulation, eigenanalysis, statistics, and more
• spss, the SPSS statistical analysis system for UNIX
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• diffutils, set of GNU utilities to compare files
• emacs, GNU full featured text editor
• grep, GNU's version of grep pattern matching utility rectory and checks for broken links
• hotmetal, World Wide Web html structured editor, for entering, checking, and fixing html, for X Windows
• ispell, GNU spelling checker
• less, pager with more features than the standard more command
• pgp, Pretty Good Privacy encryption system for email and files
• pico, text editor used by the pine mail system; can be used as an alternate to vi
• the also known as x, UNIX clone of the CMS text editor XEDIT (and the PC text editor KEDIT)
• xwp, X Windows version of the popular wordprocessing package, WordPerfect
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• CCSO nameserver, directory database client/server software from UIUC's CCSO, also known as ph
• diffutils, set of GNU utilities to compare files
• Restore files from backups: dsmc (text mode) and dsm (X Windows), restores copies of icarus files from Computer Center overnight backups
• grep, GNU's version of grep pattern matching utility
• GNU file compression utilities, including gzip, which produces .gz compressed files, gunzip, which unzips many types of compressed files, and more
• ispell, GNU spelling checker
• make, GNU version of make; much more robust than the standard make command
• metamail, encoder and decoder for MIME mail, used by trn newsreader
• patch, patches source files using diff output
• sed, GNU stream editor
• tar, GNU's implementation of tar, the Tape ARchiver
• tcsh, a superset of the C shell with additional features
• unzip, uncompresses zipped files; for full file compression utilities, see the GNU GZip utilities
• zsh, an interactive shell with many of the best features of ksh and csh
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• hotmetal, World Wide Web html structured editor, for entering, checking, and fixing html, for X Windows
• html_analyzer, searches html files in a directory and checks for broken links
• linklint, walks through html files, searching for broken links
• lynx, VT100 World Wide Web browser
• mapedit, tool to convert images to WWW hotmaps
• mosaic, X Windows version of NCSA's Mosaic World Wide Web browser
• netscape, X Windows version of the Netscape World Wide Web browser
• weblint, World Wide Web html syntax checker, patterned after lint
• Plus other Web publishing tools, including an image mapper, a Web form-to-email tool, a Web log analyzer, a search engine to use for your Web pages, security tools, a PostScript to PDF coverter, and instructions on how to use CGI scripts; see Web Publishing at UIC: Advanced Web Publishing.
• A set of commands to convert almost any type of input (including text, TIFF graphics, and troff) to PostScript; see the Distiller on the Web instruction page.

• gs, Ghostscript X Windows PostScript viewer
• ghostview, user interface for ghostscript X Windows PostScript viewer
• hotmetal, World Wide Web html structured editor, for entering, checking, and fixing html, for X Windows
• mosaic, X Windows version of NCSA's Mosaic World Wide Web
• sas, the SAS statistical analysis system for UNIX
• speakez -e (text mode) and speakez (X Windows), interactive math package for matrix manipulation, eigenanalysis, statistics, and more browser
• spss, the SPSS statistical analysis system for UNIX
• tk toolkit, for use with tcl programming language for X Windows programs
• wp, X Windows version of the popular
• xarchie, an X Windows program to search FTP sites for publicly available files wordprocessing package, WordPerfect
• xdvi, an X Windows program which allows you to preview TeX .dvi files before printing
• xgopher, X Windows gopher client
• xv, interactive image display for X Windows
• x3270, IBM 3270 emulator for X Windows, for remote logins to IBM VM/CMS systems
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