Information on 'other' software
| Editors | A selection of text editors are available: NEdit, XEmacs, ViM, as well as the KDE-included editor, Kate. Note that Emacs/XEmacs may not be installed by default, but can easily be added on request. |
| Open Office | OpenOffice.org 2 is now installed on the servers - simply type soffice to run it. |
| Mozilla | The opensource Mozilla browser and email client is installed on the server under /usr/local/bin/mozilla. It will start if you simply type mozilla in a console window. At the moment we're running version 1.4 - Java and Flash plugins are available. |
| Netscape | Netscape 7.1 is also installed on the server, as /usr/local/bin/netscape. As with Mozilla, java and flash plugins are available by default. |
| Spectrum |
The Spectrum model atmosphere code is installed in the model account. To run
Spectrum or Spectrum_qub you need to add this line to your .tcshrc
file: source /home/model/spectrum/spectrum_setup.tcsh |
| Ultracam |
Software for the reduction of Ultracam data is installed in
/usr/local/ultracam. To run it, add this line to your .tcshrc: source /usr/local/ultracam/uc.setup Documentation for the program is here. |
| LHEASOFT Ftools/XSPEC |
Software for working with data from the various X-Ray telescopes is
installed in /usr/local/lheasoft. You can read all about it at this
link. To run XSPEC on the local machines you need to add the following to your .tcshrc file: setenv LHEASOFT /usr/local/lheasoft/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ source $LHEASOFT/lhea-init.csh |
| XMM/SAS |
The software for working with data from the XMM-Newton mission is
installed in /usr/local/xmm. You can read all about it at this
link. To run SAS on the local machines you need to add the following to your .tcshrc file: setenv SAS_DIR /usr/local/xmm6 setenv SAS_PATH /usr/local/xmm6 source $SAS_DIR/sas-setup.csh |
| SolarSoft SSWIDL |
IDL-based Software for working with data from SOHO, Yokoh, and other solar
observing facilities is in /usr/local/ssw. Documentation may be found at
this link. We also have a nightly-updated collection
of calibration files for the various instruments we use, in the
sswdb directory. Thanks to David Williams for helping set this
up. To run SSWIDL on the local machines you need to add the following to your .login file: setenv SSW /usr/local/ssw setenv SSW_INSTR "trace eit yohkoh cds chianti" source $SSW/gen/setup/setup.ssw |