Installed Software

We try to have uniformity in the software installed on the computers in the lab. This page contains a list of software installed on them other than the factory default software.

iMacs

Apple Developer Tools

Located in /Developer are the Apple developer tools including XCode and Interface builder. This also puts GCC in /usr/bin/.

Active TCL

ActiveState provides a newer version of Tcl/Tk than Apple. It has the added advantage of being a Universal binary that works on PPC and x86, unlike the version that comes with MacOS X 10.4, which is a PPC version that has to run in emulation on an x86 like our iMacs.

Adium

Adium is a multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others.

Aquamacs Emacs

Aquamacs is a Mac friendly GUI for Emacs.

Firefox

Firefox is a popular web browser.

Gimp

The Gimp is an opensource image editing program. Not as powerful as Photoshop, but free instead of over $600.

gVim

gVim is a GUI version of Vim. The current version is 7.0, whereas the terminal version is only 6.2.

Linger

Linger is a program written in Tcl/Tk for doing language experiments, particularly self-paced reading studies.

MacPython

The default version of Python that comes with MacOS X 10.4 is rather old (2.3.5) and doesn't support readline command line editing and history. MacPython provides a more up to date version with readline. Versions 2.4.4 and 2.5.1 are installed, but Current is pointed at 2.4.4 due to some libraries not being available for 2.5 yet. If you want a specific version type python2.3, python2.4, or python2.5 at the command line.

NeoOffice

NeoOffice is a a Mac native port of the OpenOffice.org office suite.

R

The R statistics package. The install includes the optional GNU Fortran in /usr/local/bin/ for compiling some R packages.

sshfs

sshfs is a program that allows you to mount a remote filesystem over ssh. It's kind of like a hybrid of ssh and sftp, but built into the Finder.

MacTex 2007

The MacTex users group provides a package that includes a recent version of the TeTex port of LaTex along with the TexShop LaTex editor and BibDesk BibTex bibliography manager.