Software wish list

Take a look at our SoftWare policy first.

Please keep in mind that it is impossible for us to always keep track with the newest releases and the replacement of central parts of the systems is not trivial at all (i.e. compilers, interpreters, central libraries while keeping multiple versions of the same products might provoke surprising side effects.

To check the availability of certain software as a Debian package, http://packages.debian.org/ is a good starting point.

This list is mostly outdated. Please *send your requests to linux-service@gsi.de instead.

Resolved requests

Request	Who	When	Solution
gdict (gnome) als panel im kde ;)):	WikiGuest	08 Sep 2004	You should try kdict, which may be integrated into the KDE panel with ( right click somewhere in the panel ->) Panel Menu -> Add -> Applet -> Dictionary.
TOra - Toolkit For Oracle	WikiGuest	21 Sep 2004	installed on Woody (Version 1.3.13) and Sarge (Version 1.3.21) with Oracle and MySQL backend enabled. Further Information: MichaelDahlinger
Pexcept	WikiGuest	07 Dec 2004	Installed as /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pexpect.py
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7	WikiGuest	17 Jun 2005	Installed as /usr/local/bin/acroread7
nedit on Debian Sarge (lxsarge32)	KilianSchwarz	08 Nov 2005	Installed
BerkeleyDB including db.h	KilianSchwarz	03 Nov 2005	Berkeley DB 4.2 and 4.3 are to be installed. The related packages are DebPkg:libdb4.2 , DebPkg:libdb4.2++ ,DebPkg:libdb4.3, DebPkg:libdb4.3++ , DebPkg:libdb4.3++-dev , DebPkg:libdb4.3-dev , DebPkg:db4.2-doc , DebPkg:db4.2-util , DebPkg:db4.3-doc and DebPkg:db4.3-util . /usr/include/db.h comes with DebPkg:libdb4.3-dev .
Boost libraries	AnarManafov	07 Jul 2005	Sarge comes with version 1.32
GnuPlot 4	WikiGuest	10 Mar 2005	Version 4 is included in Sarge DebPkg:gnuplot-mode for Emacs is also available
OpenOffice 1.1+	WikiGuest	08 Sep 2004	OpenOffice 2.0.1 (DebPkg:openoffice.org ) is installed, including English and German localisations, hyphenations and thesauri
Perl 5.8+	WikiGuest	21 Sep 2004	Sarge comes with Perl 5.8.4
Python 2.4	WikiGuest	10 Mar 2005	Base package , documentation and profiler are installed
Umbrello UML Modeller for KDE	WikiGuest	21 Sep 2004	Part of DebPkg:kdesdk
CVS on Debian Sarge	AnarManafov	21 Nov 2005
DDD on Debian Sarge	AnarManafov	21 Nov 2005
DebPkg:a2ps on sarge	HaikSimon	16 Dec 2005	enscript provides the same capabilities
DebPkg:kcachegrind - visualisation tool for valgrind profiling output (on Sarge)	AnarManafov	17 Feb 2006
DebPkg:valgrind-callgrind - call-graph skin for valgrind (on Sarge)	AnarManafov	17 Feb 2006
DebPkg:doxygen (on Sarge)!!!	AnarManafov	16 Apr 2006
citrix client	HaikSimon	16 Dec 2005	Installed beneath /usr/local
rawdog rss aggregator	UweScholz	16 Sep 2009
abook is a textmode addressbook	UweScholz	16 Sep 2009
remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program	UweScholz	16 Sep 2009

Outstanding Requests

Evolution 2.2	WikiGuest	10 Jun 2005	Backport to Sarge is possible; anyhow the stability of evolution and evolution-exchange plugin must be further investigated
zlib at least v1.2.3	AnarManafov	05 Nov 2005	only version 1.2.2 on Sarge atm.
boost at least v1.33 (with zlib support in iostreams)	AnarManafov	05 Nov 2005	only version 1.32 on Sarge yet
Graphviz package for dot tool used by doxygen	JoernWuestenfeld	06 Sep 2006	Debian package : graphviz
rss2email is a powerfull RSS feed agregator which delivers news from RSS feeds to your email program. It works on the linux console and is updated either manually or by crontab...	UweScholz	13 Mar 2012	Debian package : rss2email (available in all debian versions)

XMGrace 5.1.18 in debain package grace (1:5.1.18-1) Grace is a point-and-click tool that allows the user to draw X-Y plots.

-- HaraldBraeuning - 04 Aug 2006

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• I'd like to see the debian tcllib package installed. I have a bunch of tcl scripts using tcllib under Windows I'd now like to transfer to the Linux farm. -- DavidOndreka - 24 Mar 2012 13:10:25
• Basket, kde note taker software -- StephanePietri - 21 Mar 2011 06:36:02
• GammaWare -- Agata Analysis Software http://agata.in2p3.fr/ -- EdanaMerchan - 09 Mar 2011 09:59:19
• Origin -- RahulArora - 27 Jan 2011 14:48:51
• new version of eclipse -- MatthiasLochmann - 08 Dec 2010 12:18:26
• octave-3.2.4 - as a freeware compatible alternative to the mathlab should maybe actualized because a lot of mathlab scripts require octave version newer than 3.1 -- GheorgheIancu - 26 Apr 2010 08:05:37
• libxml (V2) and libxslt in their development versions (i.e. with the needed include files). I really want to do some XML-programming.

Best regards, Magnus -- MagnusMager - 04 Feb 2008 10:01:04

• My secret wish is having Inkscape running! - I need to do some vector graphic (i.e. svg) manipulation/creation and Inkscape is by far the best tool araound. -- MagnusMager - 31 Jan 2008 10:38:14
• geda (20060123-1) GNU EDA -- Electronics design software -- AndreasReischl - 14 Aug 2007 10:21:52

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