Software that should be installed in CSE313

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Contents 1 Linux 1.1 Graphics 1.2 Internet 1.3 Documentation 1.4 Development 1.5 Big ones 1.6 Other applications not in repository 1.7 LaTex

Linux

Graphics

• blender
• inkscape
• jpeg2ps
• kview
• pdfjam (contains pdfjoin)
• xfig
• POV-Ray

Internet

• Flash plugin
• VNC viewer
• Acrobat reader plugin

Documentation

• Auxiliary latex packages
  • texlive-extra-utils, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-font-utils
• kpdf - reloads pdf automatically when recreated (e.g. via latex/dvipdf/ps2pdf)
• Ghostview - viewer for postscript files
• OpenOffice packages supporting formulas (equations)

Development

• glut (typically freeglut)
• GLEW
• irb
• eruby
• cmake
• ddd (frontend to gdb for debugging)
• kdbg is also a nice frontend to gdb that I typically prefer
• git and mercurial
  These are two distributed concurrent versioning systems. The linux kernel currently uses the more full-featured git, but mercurial is far easier to learn and use.
• gvim

Big ones

• KDE 3.5 (KDE 4 is immature)

Other applications not in repository

• Matlab
• Maple

LaTex

• memory increase How to increase LaTeX memory?