This page only shows some of the packages that can be installed with Fink, but it will probably give a beginner an idea of what is available.
Fink currently lists in its database (as 1-29-03) 2114 packages you could install, including the unstable tree and the latest packages from CVS.
Contents
Screenshots
The Gimp
Abiword
Gnumeric
Siag
Lyx
Xmms
Xmms-gdancer
Xemacs
Pymol
Maxima
StarPlot
Rasmol
Ghemical
Geomview
GPeriodic
Grace
Scigraphica
Xephem
Oregano
KDE
GNOME
Vim61
Ncurses
LAME
Xchat
Fileutils
Autocutsel
Ispell
Screen
Rsync
Macosx-file-pm
Deborphan
Fix-fink
Pine
Openssh
Mysql
Postgresql
Mozilla
Lynx
ImageMagick
Screenshots
XDarwin
Apple's X11
The Gimp
The GIMP is a great image editing and painting program that competes with any commercial application available, yet is developed and distributed as open-source software. You can use it as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, for image composition and image authoring, etc.
The GIMP interface is user friendly, with many easy, time-saving features such as keyboard shortcuts, tear-off menus, and drag-and-drop colors. It is easily expandable and can be used with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. In addition, from the most simple operation to the most complex, everything can be scripted through the advanced scripting interface.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Fink Package gimp:
Maintainer -- Alexander Strange
Abiword
AbiWord is an open source word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. This free word processor is able to read and write most documents in Word's *.doc file format.
It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth. It comes with a number of useful features: support for plug-ins and scripts; a spell checker, 2- and 3-column text formatting, and image importing.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Abiword Help
Fink Package abiword:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Gnumeric
The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user-friendly desktop environment. Gnumeric will import your existing Excel, 1-2-3, Applix, Sylk, XBase and Oleo files.
Click here for screenshot
Information
User Manual
FAQ
Fink Package gnumeric:
Maintainer -- Dave Morrison
Siag
Siag Office is a tightly integrated, free office package. It consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package siag:
Maintainer -- Martin Costabel
LyX
LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor. Is an advanced open source document processor running on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin.
Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface and need an X server. Unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Fink Package lyx:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Xmms
XMMS is a great MP3 player.
It can play MP3s, convert MP3s to WAV files suitable for using to make an audio CD and be used as an audio CD player. But, MP3s are what this program was designed for. And it does it very well. If you're into MP3s you should try it out.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Download Skins
Fink Package xmms:
Maintainer -- Masanori Sekino
Xmms-gdancer
There is a 'visualization plug-in' for xmms that you can install with fink, named "xmms-gdancer", I enjoy it quite a lot (The package xmms-gdancer 0.4.5-2 was ported by Ben Hines). I have fun seeing all these characters dancing to the salsa rythm I listened, as GDancer is a plugin to animate characters to the beat of the music.
The default character is Space Ghost, but you can use and make your own characters through themes. I particularly enjoy seeing Laetitia Casta, alien, Dancing Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes and Fred Flintstone all together shaking to the beat of a merengue.
Information
Download Themes
Fink Package xmms-gdancer:
Maintainer -- Ben Hines
Xemacs
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development mode.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Customization
Fink Package xemacs:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Pymol
DeLano, W.L. The PyMOL Molecular Graphics System (2002) DeLano Scientific, San Carlos, CA, USA.
PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package pymol:
Maintainer -- Matt Stephenson
Maxima
Symbol manipulation program.
Maxima is a descendant of the symbol manipulation program Macsyma, which had its roots in the late 1960s at MIT. Its abilities include basic algebraic manipulation, symbolic integration, 2D and 3D plotting, and an ODE solver.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package maxima:
Maintainer -- William McCallum
StarPlot
Viewer for 3-D perspective star charts.
Starplot is a program which can be used to view star charts in a three-dimensional perspective, using a GTK+ interface.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package starplot:
Maintainer -- Jeremy Higgs
RasMol
RasMol is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program is aimed at display, teaching and generation of publication quality images.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package rasmol:
Maintainer -- Andrew Rohl
Ghemical
Molecular modelling environment for GNOME.
Ghemical is written in C++. It has a graphical user interface (in fact, a couple of them), and it supports both quantum-mechanics (semi-empirical and ab initio) models and molecular mechanics models (there is an experimental Tripos 5.2-like force field for organic molecules).
Also a tool for reduced protein models is included. Geometry optimization, molecular dynamics and a large set of visualization tools are currently available.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package ghemical:
Maintainer -- Matt Stephenson
Geomview
Geomview is an interactive 3D viewing program for Unix. It lets you view and manipulate 3D objects: you use the mouse to rotate, translate, zoom in and out, etc. It can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry.
It can display objects described in a variety of file formats. It comes with a wide selection of example objects, and you can create your own objects too.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package geomview:
Maintainer -- Dave Morrison
GPeriodic
Gperiodic displays a periodic table of the elements, allowing you to browse through the elements, and view detailed information about each element.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package GPeriodic:
Maintainer -- Matt Stephenson
Grace
Grace is a Motif/Lesstif application for two-dimensional data visualization.
Grace can transform the data using free equations, FFT, cross- and auto-correlation, differences, integrals, histograms, and much more. The generated figures are of high quality. Grace is a very convenient tool for data inspection, data transformation, and for making figures for publications.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package grace:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Scigraphica
SciGraphica is a scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics. It pretends to be a clone of the popular commercial (and expensive) application "Microcal Origin".
It fully supplies plotting features for 2D, 3D and polar charts. The aim is to obtain a fully-featured, cross-plattform, user-friendly, self-growing scientific application. It is free and open-source, released under the GPL license.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package scigraphica:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Xephem
Astronomical Software Ephemeris
The brainchild of programmer Elwood Downey, XEphem is a star-charting, sky-simulating, ephemeris-generating celestial virtuoso that can do just about everything ...
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package xephem:
Maintainer -- Peter O'Gorman
Oregano
Oregano is an application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. For the actual simulation, Oregano acts as a front-end for SPICE, which is more or less the industry standard for circuit simulation.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package oregano:
Maintainer -- Finlay Dobbie
KDE
KDE - a full-blown Integrated Desktop Environment
KDE provides a complete desktop environment, including a web browser, a file manager, a window manager, a help system, a configuration system, uncountable tools and utilities, and an ever increasing number of applications, including but not limited to mail and news clients, drawing programs, a PostScript® and a DVI viewer and so forth.
Click here for screenshot
Information
FAQ
Themes
Fink KDE List of Packages
GNOME
The GNOME project was the first to provide a fully free desktop environment for Unix-like systems. From the start, the main objective of GNOME has been to provide a user friendly suite of applications and an easy-to-use desktop.
The GNOME project acts as an umbrella, the major components of GNOME are:
The GNOME desktop: an easy to use windows-based environment for users. The GNOME development platform: a rich collection of tools, libraries, and components to develop powerful applications on Unix. The GNOME Office: A set of office productivity applications.
Click here for screenshot
Information
FAQ
Themes
Fink Gnome List of Packages
Vim61
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Many new features have been added: multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. There is also a Graphical User Interface (GUI) available. This editor is very useful for editing programs and other plain ASCII files.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Fink Package vim61:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Ncurses
Ncurses (new curses) is a freely distributable "clone" of System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses. The Curses library forms a wrapper over working with raw terminal codes, and provides highly flexible and efficient API (Application Programming Interface).
It provides functions to move the cursor, create windows, produce colors, play with the mouse etc. The Application programs need not worry about the underlying terminal capabilities.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package ncurses:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
LAME
LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3.
LAME is not for everyone - it is distributed as source code only and requires the ability to use a C compiler. However, many popular ripping and encoding programs include the LAME encoding engine.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package LAME:
Maintainer -- Sylvain Cuaz
Xchat
Xchat is an IRC client for UNIX operating systems.
I.R.C. is Internet Relay Chat. Xchat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems. Xchat is a graphical IRC client. It runs under the X Window System and uses the GTK+ toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use Gnome.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package xchat:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
Fileutils
The GNU File Utilities are the basic file-manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.
The tools supplied with this package are:
* chgrp - Changes file group ownership.
* chown - Changes file ownership.
* chmod - Changes file permissions.
* cp - Copies files.
* dd - Copies and converts a file.
* df - Shows disk free space on filesystems.
* dir - Gives a brief directory listing.
* dircolors - Setup program for the color output of GNU ls.
* du - Shows disk usage on filesystems.
* install - Copies file and sets its permissions.
* ln - Creates file links.
* ls - Lists directory contents.
* mkdir - Creates directories.
* mkfifo - Creates FIFOs (named pipes).
* mknod - Creates special files.
* mv - Moves files.
* rm - Removes (deletes) files.
* rmdir - Removes empty directories.
* shred - Destroy data in files.
* sync - Synchronizes filesystem buffers and disk.
* touch - Changes file timestamps.
* vdir - Long directory listing.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package fileutils:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
Autocutsel
Merges two X11 cut buffers. Gives a working cut and paste between Aqua and those X apps that only check one cut buffer.
Usage Notes:
just put 'autocutsel &' in your ~/.xinitrc file.
Make sure it's before the line that exec's the window manager and never returns! Don't just add it at the end, it won't be executed.
Information
Fink Package autocutsel:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Ispell
ispell is a fast screen-oriented spelling checker that shows you your errors in the context of the original file, and suggests possible corrections when it can figure them out. Compared to UNIX spell, it is faster and much easier to use. ispell can also handle languages other than English.
Information
Fink Package ispell:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Screen
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets).
There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows the user to move text regions between windows. When screen is called, it creates a single window with a shell in it (or the specified command) and then gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally would.
Then, at any time, you can create new (full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells), kill the current window, view a list of the active windows, turn output logging on and off, copy text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs completely independent of each other. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the users terminal.
Information
Discussion Forum
Fink Package screen:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Rsync
rsync is a file transfer program for Unix systems. rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
Some features of rsync include:
* can update whole directory trees and filesystems
* optionally preserves symbolic links, hard links, file ownership, permissions, devices and times
* requires no special privilages to install
* internal pipelining reduces latency for multiple files
* can use rsh, ssh or direct sockets as the transport
* supports anonymous rsync which is ideal for mirroring
Information
Fink Package rsync:
Maintainer -- Bill Bumgarner
Macosx-file-pm
Is a collection of modules that allows you to do what binaries in /Developer/Tools allows you to do directly via perl. You can implement your own CpMac, MvMac, GetFileInfo and SetFile without calling these binaries.
Scripts:
pcpmac - CpMac reimplemented
pmvmac - MvMac reimplemented
pgetfinfo - GetFileInfo reimplemented
psetfinfo - SetFile reimplemented
psync - update copy utility
About Psync
Psync does an update copy. It compares source directory and target directory at first, then erases items that are nonexistent on source directory if specified and finally copies everything on source directory. Items with the same modification date and (data fork) size remain untouched, saving time on operation.
I love this script, thanks to psync I saved myself a lot of headaches in many occasions, I use it regularly like this:
sudo psync -d /Users/pm /Volumes/backupdisk/backup
To produce a copy of my home directory (and all subdirectories) inside the backup directory on "backupdisk". And, the next time you use it with the same command, it will sync the backup with the active copy, deleting files on the backup that have been deleted on the main copy (if you don't want this to happen just take out the "-d" flag), and only copying files that have changed.
According to the man pages, it is also possible to backup everything in the startup volume, all you have to say is:
sudo psync -d / /Volumes/I backup
And the resulting backup volume is fully-bootable copy thereof. Note `sudo' or root privilege is necessary to restore file ownership.
Information
sourceforge.net
Fink Package macosx-file-pm:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Deborphan
deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections, to hunt down unused libraries.
Information
Fink Package deborphan:
Maintainer -- Masanori Sekino
Fix-fink
This utility will examine your fink installation to determine if any of your dynamic libraries have been linked to an outdated version (version 50.0.0) of libSystem.B.dylib.
Having links to that version has caused a number of problems among fink users, particularly with certain gnome-related packages and with gnumeric. Once you have performed a CVS update and have made the fix-fink-1.0-1.info file available to your fink search tree, "fink install fix-fink" will install the utility, and "fix-fink" will run it."
Information
Fink Package fix-fink:
Maintainer -- Dave Morrison
Pine
Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington.
Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Pine has evolved to support many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package pine:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Openssh
OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools that increasing numbers of people on the Internet are coming to rely on. Many users of telnet, rlogin, ftp, and other such programs might not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is.
OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides a myriad of secure tunneling capabilities, as well as a variety of authentication methods.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package openssh:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
Mysql
The MySQL database server embodies an ingenious software architecture that maximises speed and customisability. Extensive reuse of pieces of code within the software and an ambition to produce minimalistic but functionally rich features have resulted in a database management system unmatched in speed, compactness, stability and ease of deployment.
The unique separation of the core server from the table handler makes it possible to run MySQL under strict transaction control or with ultrafast transactionless disk access, whichever is most appropriate for the situation.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package mysql:
Maintainer -- None
Postgresql
PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced Open Source Object-based Relational Database Management System (ORBMS), now offers companies the security of a Replication Server, providing data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions previously limited to more costly commercial RDBMS packages.
Replication is an important requirement for commercial applications, and an essential set of utilities for supporting the expanding market of PostgreSQL servers worldwide.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package postgresql:
Maintainer -- Benjamin Reed
Mozilla
Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. A full-fledged browser suite based on the latest Internet standards as well as a cross-platform toolkit, Mozilla 1.0 is targeted at the developer community and enables the creation of Internet-based applications.
It was developed in an open source environment and built by harnessing the creative powers of thousands of programmers on the Internet, incorporating their best enhancements.
By offering a set of components that can be used in a wide range of applications, are all open source, free of charge and have been tested through their use in Mozilla 1.0’s end-user applications, Mozilla 1.0 enables developers to build applications for a cross-platform, network-centric world.
Information
Documentation
Fink Package mozilla:
Maintainer -- Masanori Sekino
Lynx
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display).
It will display Hypertext Markup Language(HTML) documents containing links to files on the local system, as well as files on remote systems running http, gopher, ftp, wais, nntp, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Fink Package lynx:
Maintainer -- Alexander Strange
ImageMagick
ImageMagickTM is a rich collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major formats). This includes the most popular formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. The ImageMagick programs or tools are: display, animate, combine, convert, import, identify, mogrify, montage, xtp.
You can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and then save your work in the same or a different image format. You can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, Perl, or Java programming interfaces.
Click here for screenshot
Information
ImageMagick Tools
FAQ
Fink Package ImageMagick:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Contents
Screenshots
The Gimp
Abiword
Gnumeric
Siag
Lyx
Xmms
Xmms-gdancer
Xemacs
Pymol
Maxima
StarPlot
Rasmol
Ghemical
Geomview
GPeriodic
Grace
Scigraphica
Xephem
Oregano
KDE
GNOME
Vim61
Ncurses
LAME
Xchat
Fileutils
Autocutsel
Ispell
Screen
Rsync
Macosx-file-pm
Deborphan
Fix-fink
Pine
Openssh
Mysql
Postgresql
Mozilla
Lynx
ImageMagick
Screenshots
XDarwin
Apple's X11
The Gimp
The GIMP is a great image editing and painting program that competes with any commercial application available, yet is developed and distributed as open-source software. You can use it as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, for image composition and image authoring, etc.
The GIMP interface is user friendly, with many easy, time-saving features such as keyboard shortcuts, tear-off menus, and drag-and-drop colors. It is easily expandable and can be used with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. In addition, from the most simple operation to the most complex, everything can be scripted through the advanced scripting interface.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Fink Package gimp:
Maintainer -- Alexander Strange
Abiword
AbiWord is an open source word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. This free word processor is able to read and write most documents in Word's *.doc file format.
It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth. It comes with a number of useful features: support for plug-ins and scripts; a spell checker, 2- and 3-column text formatting, and image importing.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Abiword Help
Fink Package abiword:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Gnumeric
The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user-friendly desktop environment. Gnumeric will import your existing Excel, 1-2-3, Applix, Sylk, XBase and Oleo files.
Click here for screenshot
Information
User Manual
FAQ
Fink Package gnumeric:
Maintainer -- Dave Morrison
Siag
Siag Office is a tightly integrated, free office package. It consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package siag:
Maintainer -- Martin Costabel
LyX
LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor. Is an advanced open source document processor running on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin.
Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface and need an X server. Unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Fink Package lyx:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Xmms
XMMS is a great MP3 player.
It can play MP3s, convert MP3s to WAV files suitable for using to make an audio CD and be used as an audio CD player. But, MP3s are what this program was designed for. And it does it very well. If you're into MP3s you should try it out.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Download Skins
Fink Package xmms:
Maintainer -- Masanori Sekino
Xmms-gdancer
There is a 'visualization plug-in' for xmms that you can install with fink, named "xmms-gdancer", I enjoy it quite a lot (The package xmms-gdancer 0.4.5-2 was ported by Ben Hines). I have fun seeing all these characters dancing to the salsa rythm I listened, as GDancer is a plugin to animate characters to the beat of the music.
The default character is Space Ghost, but you can use and make your own characters through themes. I particularly enjoy seeing Laetitia Casta, alien, Dancing Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes and Fred Flintstone all together shaking to the beat of a merengue.
Information
Download Themes
Fink Package xmms-gdancer:
Maintainer -- Ben Hines
Xemacs
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development mode.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Documentation
Customization
Fink Package xemacs:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Pymol
DeLano, W.L. The PyMOL Molecular Graphics System (2002) DeLano Scientific, San Carlos, CA, USA.
PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package pymol:
Maintainer -- Matt Stephenson
Maxima
Symbol manipulation program.
Maxima is a descendant of the symbol manipulation program Macsyma, which had its roots in the late 1960s at MIT. Its abilities include basic algebraic manipulation, symbolic integration, 2D and 3D plotting, and an ODE solver.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package maxima:
Maintainer -- William McCallum
StarPlot
Viewer for 3-D perspective star charts.
Starplot is a program which can be used to view star charts in a three-dimensional perspective, using a GTK+ interface.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package starplot:
Maintainer -- Jeremy Higgs
RasMol
RasMol is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program is aimed at display, teaching and generation of publication quality images.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package rasmol:
Maintainer -- Andrew Rohl
Ghemical
Molecular modelling environment for GNOME.
Ghemical is written in C++. It has a graphical user interface (in fact, a couple of them), and it supports both quantum-mechanics (semi-empirical and ab initio) models and molecular mechanics models (there is an experimental Tripos 5.2-like force field for organic molecules).
Also a tool for reduced protein models is included. Geometry optimization, molecular dynamics and a large set of visualization tools are currently available.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package ghemical:
Maintainer -- Matt Stephenson
Geomview
Geomview is an interactive 3D viewing program for Unix. It lets you view and manipulate 3D objects: you use the mouse to rotate, translate, zoom in and out, etc. It can be used as a standalone viewer for static objects or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically changing geometry.
It can display objects described in a variety of file formats. It comes with a wide selection of example objects, and you can create your own objects too.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package geomview:
Maintainer -- Dave Morrison
GPeriodic
Gperiodic displays a periodic table of the elements, allowing you to browse through the elements, and view detailed information about each element.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package GPeriodic:
Maintainer -- Matt Stephenson
Grace
Grace is a Motif/Lesstif application for two-dimensional data visualization.
Grace can transform the data using free equations, FFT, cross- and auto-correlation, differences, integrals, histograms, and much more. The generated figures are of high quality. Grace is a very convenient tool for data inspection, data transformation, and for making figures for publications.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package grace:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Scigraphica
SciGraphica is a scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics. It pretends to be a clone of the popular commercial (and expensive) application "Microcal Origin".
It fully supplies plotting features for 2D, 3D and polar charts. The aim is to obtain a fully-featured, cross-plattform, user-friendly, self-growing scientific application. It is free and open-source, released under the GPL license.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package scigraphica:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Xephem
Astronomical Software Ephemeris
The brainchild of programmer Elwood Downey, XEphem is a star-charting, sky-simulating, ephemeris-generating celestial virtuoso that can do just about everything ...
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package xephem:
Maintainer -- Peter O'Gorman
Oregano
Oregano is an application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. For the actual simulation, Oregano acts as a front-end for SPICE, which is more or less the industry standard for circuit simulation.
Click here for screenshot
Information
Fink Package oregano:
Maintainer -- Finlay Dobbie
KDE
KDE - a full-blown Integrated Desktop Environment
KDE provides a complete desktop environment, including a web browser, a file manager, a window manager, a help system, a configuration system, uncountable tools and utilities, and an ever increasing number of applications, including but not limited to mail and news clients, drawing programs, a PostScript® and a DVI viewer and so forth.
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GNOME
The GNOME project was the first to provide a fully free desktop environment for Unix-like systems. From the start, the main objective of GNOME has been to provide a user friendly suite of applications and an easy-to-use desktop.
The GNOME project acts as an umbrella, the major components of GNOME are:
The GNOME desktop: an easy to use windows-based environment for users. The GNOME development platform: a rich collection of tools, libraries, and components to develop powerful applications on Unix. The GNOME Office: A set of office productivity applications.
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Vim61
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Many new features have been added: multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. There is also a Graphical User Interface (GUI) available. This editor is very useful for editing programs and other plain ASCII files.
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Fink Package vim61:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Ncurses
Ncurses (new curses) is a freely distributable "clone" of System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses. The Curses library forms a wrapper over working with raw terminal codes, and provides highly flexible and efficient API (Application Programming Interface).
It provides functions to move the cursor, create windows, produce colors, play with the mouse etc. The Application programs need not worry about the underlying terminal capabilities.
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Fink Package ncurses:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
LAME
LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3.
LAME is not for everyone - it is distributed as source code only and requires the ability to use a C compiler. However, many popular ripping and encoding programs include the LAME encoding engine.
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Fink Package LAME:
Maintainer -- Sylvain Cuaz
Xchat
Xchat is an IRC client for UNIX operating systems.
I.R.C. is Internet Relay Chat. Xchat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems. Xchat is a graphical IRC client. It runs under the X Window System and uses the GTK+ toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use Gnome.
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Fink Package xchat:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
Fileutils
The GNU File Utilities are the basic file-manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.
The tools supplied with this package are:
* chgrp - Changes file group ownership.
* chown - Changes file ownership.
* chmod - Changes file permissions.
* cp - Copies files.
* dd - Copies and converts a file.
* df - Shows disk free space on filesystems.
* dir - Gives a brief directory listing.
* dircolors - Setup program for the color output of GNU ls.
* du - Shows disk usage on filesystems.
* install - Copies file and sets its permissions.
* ln - Creates file links.
* ls - Lists directory contents.
* mkdir - Creates directories.
* mkfifo - Creates FIFOs (named pipes).
* mknod - Creates special files.
* mv - Moves files.
* rm - Removes (deletes) files.
* rmdir - Removes empty directories.
* shred - Destroy data in files.
* sync - Synchronizes filesystem buffers and disk.
* touch - Changes file timestamps.
* vdir - Long directory listing.
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Fink Package fileutils:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
Autocutsel
Merges two X11 cut buffers. Gives a working cut and paste between Aqua and those X apps that only check one cut buffer.
Usage Notes:
just put 'autocutsel &' in your ~/.xinitrc file.
Make sure it's before the line that exec's the window manager and never returns! Don't just add it at the end, it won't be executed.
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Fink Package autocutsel:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Ispell
ispell is a fast screen-oriented spelling checker that shows you your errors in the context of the original file, and suggests possible corrections when it can figure them out. Compared to UNIX spell, it is faster and much easier to use. ispell can also handle languages other than English.
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Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Screen
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets).
There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows the user to move text regions between windows. When screen is called, it creates a single window with a shell in it (or the specified command) and then gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally would.
Then, at any time, you can create new (full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells), kill the current window, view a list of the active windows, turn output logging on and off, copy text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs completely independent of each other. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the users terminal.
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Fink Package screen:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Rsync
rsync is a file transfer program for Unix systems. rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
Some features of rsync include:
* can update whole directory trees and filesystems
* optionally preserves symbolic links, hard links, file ownership, permissions, devices and times
* requires no special privilages to install
* internal pipelining reduces latency for multiple files
* can use rsh, ssh or direct sockets as the transport
* supports anonymous rsync which is ideal for mirroring
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Fink Package rsync:
Maintainer -- Bill Bumgarner
Macosx-file-pm
Is a collection of modules that allows you to do what binaries in /Developer/Tools allows you to do directly via perl. You can implement your own CpMac, MvMac, GetFileInfo and SetFile without calling these binaries.
Scripts:
pcpmac - CpMac reimplemented
pmvmac - MvMac reimplemented
pgetfinfo - GetFileInfo reimplemented
psetfinfo - SetFile reimplemented
psync - update copy utility
About Psync
Psync does an update copy. It compares source directory and target directory at first, then erases items that are nonexistent on source directory if specified and finally copies everything on source directory. Items with the same modification date and (data fork) size remain untouched, saving time on operation.
I love this script, thanks to psync I saved myself a lot of headaches in many occasions, I use it regularly like this:
sudo psync -d /Users/pm /Volumes/backupdisk/backup
To produce a copy of my home directory (and all subdirectories) inside the backup directory on "backupdisk". And, the next time you use it with the same command, it will sync the backup with the active copy, deleting files on the backup that have been deleted on the main copy (if you don't want this to happen just take out the "-d" flag), and only copying files that have changed.
According to the man pages, it is also possible to backup everything in the startup volume, all you have to say is:
sudo psync -d / /Volumes/I backup
And the resulting backup volume is fully-bootable copy thereof. Note `sudo' or root privilege is necessary to restore file ownership.
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Fink Package macosx-file-pm:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Deborphan
deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections, to hunt down unused libraries.
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Maintainer -- Masanori Sekino
Fix-fink
This utility will examine your fink installation to determine if any of your dynamic libraries have been linked to an outdated version (version 50.0.0) of libSystem.B.dylib.
Having links to that version has caused a number of problems among fink users, particularly with certain gnome-related packages and with gnumeric. Once you have performed a CVS update and have made the fix-fink-1.0-1.info file available to your fink search tree, "fink install fix-fink" will install the utility, and "fix-fink" will run it."
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Maintainer -- Dave Morrison
Pine
Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington.
Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Pine has evolved to support many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options.
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Fink Package pine:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
Openssh
OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools that increasing numbers of people on the Internet are coming to rely on. Many users of telnet, rlogin, ftp, and other such programs might not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is.
OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides a myriad of secure tunneling capabilities, as well as a variety of authentication methods.
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Fink Package openssh:
Maintainer -- Max Horn
Mysql
The MySQL database server embodies an ingenious software architecture that maximises speed and customisability. Extensive reuse of pieces of code within the software and an ambition to produce minimalistic but functionally rich features have resulted in a database management system unmatched in speed, compactness, stability and ease of deployment.
The unique separation of the core server from the table handler makes it possible to run MySQL under strict transaction control or with ultrafast transactionless disk access, whichever is most appropriate for the situation.
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Maintainer -- None
Postgresql
PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced Open Source Object-based Relational Database Management System (ORBMS), now offers companies the security of a Replication Server, providing data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions previously limited to more costly commercial RDBMS packages.
Replication is an important requirement for commercial applications, and an essential set of utilities for supporting the expanding market of PostgreSQL servers worldwide.
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Fink Package postgresql:
Maintainer -- Benjamin Reed
Mozilla
Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. A full-fledged browser suite based on the latest Internet standards as well as a cross-platform toolkit, Mozilla 1.0 is targeted at the developer community and enables the creation of Internet-based applications.
It was developed in an open source environment and built by harnessing the creative powers of thousands of programmers on the Internet, incorporating their best enhancements.
By offering a set of components that can be used in a wide range of applications, are all open source, free of charge and have been tested through their use in Mozilla 1.0’s end-user applications, Mozilla 1.0 enables developers to build applications for a cross-platform, network-centric world.
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Fink Package mozilla:
Maintainer -- Masanori Sekino
Lynx
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display).
It will display Hypertext Markup Language(HTML) documents containing links to files on the local system, as well as files on remote systems running http, gopher, ftp, wais, nntp, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts.
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Fink Package lynx:
Maintainer -- Alexander Strange
ImageMagick
ImageMagickTM is a rich collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major formats). This includes the most popular formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. The ImageMagick programs or tools are: display, animate, combine, convert, import, identify, mogrify, montage, xtp.
You can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and then save your work in the same or a different image format. You can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, Perl, or Java programming interfaces.
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Fink Package ImageMagick:
Maintainer -- Jeffrey Whitaker
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