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Scibuntu , Ubuntu Linux for scientists and science students. Scibuntu is not just another Linux distribution. It is a script that adds scientific programs and other convinient tools to the plain desktop Ubuntu.
Scibuntu Included Software
Tools for reading and writing scientific text: LaTeX, Ghostscript, Ghostview and Acroread.
Math and statistics tools like Octave, Qalculate! and r
Plotting tools like Gnuplot, Grace and Labplot
Bioinformatics packages like Clustalw, Clustalx, Treepuzzle, Treewiewx and T-coffee
Chemistry tools like RasMol, PyMol and GROMACS
More console tools shar, memtest, dos2unix, strings, strip etc.
Development packages for C, C++, Bioperl, Biopython, FORTRAN and Emacs.
Download Scibuntu
Make sure you have Multiverse and Universe repositories available in /etc/apt/sources.list file.
Download Latest version of scibuntu from here this is only a shell script with all the required packages for scientists and science students
wget http://urban.it.hik.se/scibuntu/scibuntu021-alfa
Now you have scibuntu021-alfa file make this script executable with the following command
sudo chmod a+x scibuntu021-alfa
Now you need to start the installation with the following command
sudo ./scibuntu021-alfa
This will start the installation some of the installations require a little bit of interaction and it will install the required packages for scientists and science students.This will take some time to install all the packages.
Once you completed the installation now you are ready for you scientific graphs etc
Scibuntu Screenshots
I want to show you some of the screenshots for scibuntu.Once you finish the installation you should see the new application menus as follows
Emacs Screen
Applications Screenshots
