Science_with_Gentoo

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This page is dedicated to information on scientific software that can be used on Gentoo.It may contain links to related pages, hints and tips to get things working, or reports on successes or failures to software to compile/install/run.

Science with Gentoo

Useful related pages

Among the Gentoo Projects you may find the Scientific Gentoo Project. It links to their Mailinglist Archive and favorite IRC channel.

There is also a Gentoo Portage Overlay available that deals with science: GentooScience.org that has additional packages available not found in the regular portage tree. See also remarks below.

There is of course alway Google which might help you locate page like this

Commercial Software

Some commercial software I was able to install and run on my Gentoo x86 box and my amd64 laptop. These software packages tend to come in different versions for different processors (32 or 64 bit) or unix variants. For me, the ones below worked with their linux versions out-of-the box.

RSI IDL 6.3.

RSI has a new name ITT, and new version 6.4 which fixes some bugs that cause program crashes in 6.3.

MathWorks MATLAB R2007a.

I found their installation guide quite fuzzy and unnecessary for my purposes... Clicking and filling in the obvious just worked :-) You may want to try the open-source alternative Octave first.