Scientific Software options for Ubuntu

Submitted by k4tz on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 11:20

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

Source: UbuntuForums.org