Astronomical Software on Linux

What is the linuxastro mailing list ?

Well, it really was a mailing list of people who were interesting in porting astronomical software to linux. Luckily Linux can now be considered mainstream and in your local neighborhood there should now be somebody able to help you with either installing or running linux (since this page totally ignores that aspect). This page will merely provide links to astronomical software that is known to run under linux or have direct binaries available.

Listing

First here are some meta-links: lists that provide links to packages. Not all of them 100% linux specific, but the majority of them have either been ported, or should be doable:

AstroWeb at NRAO (or copy at STSCI) contains a large collection of astronomical software.
ASDS: (Astronomical Software & Documentation Service) a listing of packages.
Linux for Astronomy CDROM project (2-jul-2000: V5/6 released)
AstroMake aids installation of (binary only) astronomical datareduction packages. It's a small make-based shell scripts on top of RPM/TGZ/DEB, mostly for BIMA internal use.
Astrophysics Source Code Library
Astronomy Software
LinuxApps, a set of links of packages with known linux support, some of which in binary form.
astronomical software listing by Steven Baum (see also his Linux Software Encyclopedia (LSE) . And this
SAL: (Scientific Applications on Linux) Physics and Astronmy.
Astrophysics Source Code Library (Nemoroff & Waller)
Astronomy and numerical software source codes
Astronomy-HOWTO, part of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP).
Astronomy Software in the Open Directory Project

Packages

Here are individual packages for which there are known binary releases available (but not neccessarely at these links):

Classic AIPS and AIPS++
IRAF
saoimage FITSIO and FTOOLS
PGPLOT. Some binaries available: RPM binaries or sunsite.
xephem
XVista Astronomical Image Analysis Suite (Richmond and Treffers) is available for linux and solaris.
RealSky, a 9-disk CD-ROM set with 100x compresses images of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. For linux one needs the getimage software. See also the StSCI DSS page for related information on the DSS.
The Starlink Software Collection for Linux is now available via WWW from the Starlink Software Store, or on CD-ROM.
The ATNF visualisation software (Sutra) uses the Karma library, and binaries are available for linux.
GILDAS (Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software) is also available for linux.

Others

A number of related links:

Annual ADASS Conference Series, with proceedings published by the ASP.
High Energy Physics (with many interesting links to software availablu under LINUX)
Linux at FERMI LAB
Linux and Chemistry and Linux4Chemistry.
Fortran codes under Linux
Fortran 90/95 Information
fortran conformance
StatCodes, On-line statistical software for astronomy and related fields, and related to this, StatLib
Netlib , a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.
Linux for X-ray Astronomers
Science and Engineering SIG of the Vancouver Linux Users Group
SEUL/sci home page
Environment for Scientific Computing on GNU/Linux
GAMS Problem Decision Tree
Galactic Surf Astronomical Software (any platform)
Mark Mahabir's linux listing (march 2011)
An old but cute N-body simulation

Last updated on 5-apr-01 by PJT.

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