Star Office is an Office Suite of applications. It contains a word processor, spread sheet, database and more. It is suppose to be an alternative to MS Office on Linux machines. It can read and write Microsoft files, so it's perfect to handle these documents when you receive them as attachments.
There is a network install of Star Office. This has the advantages of saving disk space and upgrading once to effect everyone. The source files are in /usr/local/Office51.
You can download Star Office from Sun Microsystems for free at: http://www.sun.com/staroffice. Make sure you perform a network install.
Once Star Office is installed, each user must run a setup script to copy a few files to their home directory. The instructions for do this are here: http://wss.yale.edu/probs/chuck.php3?sid=2883&v_func=zoom.
First of all the Matlab C and C++ compilers are broken. Please read the following on how to fix them: http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/11129.shtml. The needed RPMs can be found on jove in /usr/local/oldtools. There are current versions of the corrected Matlab configuration files in /usr/local/matlab/bin. The files that need changing are: cxxopts.sh, engopts.sh, gccopts.sh, matopts.sh and mexopts.sh. You also need to change these same files in /usr/local/matlab/bin/scripts.
The department currently has matlab installed and available on all the linux clients. They have a 10 concurrent user license. So up to 10 people may use Matlab at the same time. Since Matlab is also installed on the WindowsNT machines, users there also count towards the 10 user limit.
Matlab is located in /usr/matlab5. The local license file is in /usr/matlab5/etc/license.dat
Submit a request to http://wss.yale.edu/probs/ if you wish to upgrade matlab.
The department currently has mathematica installed and available on all the linux clients. They have a 25 Computer user license. This accounts for all the Linux and Windows machines, so no one should have a problem checking out a Mathematica license.
Matlab is located in /usr/mathematica.
In order to get Mathematica to work, you have to shorten the font path. You need to copy /usr/local/configs/config to /etc/X11/fs. The following fonts have been removed from the fontpath catalog:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/misc:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/misc /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/Type1 /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/75dpi:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/100dpi:unscaled /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc
Submit a request to http://wss.yale.edu/probs/ if you wish to upgrade Mathematica.