This page is intended to present the many, many software packages & programs currently installed on SDF, sorted into categories for ease of reference. New users can refer to this file when trying to find programs, and even long-time SDFers can possibly discover something new here.

Note that this list is not expected to contain every single package currently installed. For a complete list of packages on SDF, see here. For a complete list of software that could be installed see here. Software requests are made by making a post on the 'bboard' board.

Programs marked “ARPA”, “MetaARPA”, “DBA”, or similar can only be run by users with the specified membership level.

Note: If you are planning on adding to this file, you are advised to follow the recommendations below.

• “ce”
• “ed” – the standard text editor
• “ee”
• “emacs”
• “ex”
• “hexedit”
• “jed”
• “joe”
• “jove”
• “mined”
• “nano”
• “ne” – Cambridge text editor
• “nvi”
• “pico”
• “uemacs”
• “ve”
• “vi”
• “vile”
• “vim” – Vi IMproved
• “zile”

• “beav”
• “bvi”
• “hexedit”
• “id3”
• “id3ed”
• “id3v2”
• “mp3asm”

• “alpine”
• “elm”
• “mail”
• “mailto”
• “mailx”
• “mm”
• “mush”
• “mutt”
• “nmh”
• “pine”
• “rmail”
• “xmh”

• “biff” – notifies you when new mail arrives
• “fetchmail” – fetch mail from a remote server
• “formail”
• “frm”, “nfrm” – list “From:” and “Subject:” of selected messages in mailbox or folder
• “from”
• “getmail”
• “imapfilter”
• “mailstat”
• “mdfrm” – parses Maildir files
• “metamail”
• “metasend”
• “mhn”
• “procmail”
• “sendfiles”
• “splitmail”
• “ssmtp”

• “bash”
• “csh”
• “ksh”
• “ksh93”
• “mudsh” – “M.U.D. game-like shell”
• “osh” – a port of the Sixth Edition Thompson shell
• “pdksh”
• “rc”
• “sh”
• “tcsh”
• “zsh”

• “basename”
• “chflags”
• “chgrp”
• “chmod”
• “colorls” – like “ls”, but with a “-G” option that enables colorized output
• “cp” – copy files
• “df”
• “dirname”
• “du”
• “file” – determine the type of a file
• “ln”
• “ls” – list the contents of a directory
• “mkdir” – create a directory
• “mv” – move/rename a file
• “quota”
• “readlink”
• “rm” – delete files
• “rmdir” – delete empty directories
• “stat”
• “touch”

• “awk”
• “cat” – output the contents of a file
• “cmp” – display differences between two files byte by byte
• “colrm”
• “column”
• “comm” – display line common to two files
• “cut”
• “dd”
• “diff” – display differences between two files line by line
• “diff3” – display differences between three files line by line
• “dos2unix” – convert CRLF line endings to LF
• “expand”
• “fmt”
• “fold”
• “grep” – search files for lines matching a pattern
• “head” – print the first few lines of a file
• “hexdump”
• “indent”
• “join”
• “look”
• “mawk”
• “merge”
• “nl” – number lines
• “od”
• “par”
• “paste”
• “patch” – apply the output of a “diff” command to a file
• “pr” – format text files for printing
• “rev”
• “sdiff”
• “sed”
• “sort” – sort lines
• “split” – split a file into pieces
• “states”
• “tabs”
• “tail” – print the last few lines of a file
• “tidy”
• “tr”
• “uniq”
• “unix2dos” – convert LF line endings to CRLF
• “vis”
• “wc” – count the number of bytes, characters, words, and/or lines in a file
• “xxd”

• “dillo” – only available on the NetBSD 5.0 hosts
• “elinks”
• “links”
• “lynx”
• “w3m”

• “Pnews” (ARPA)
• “nn” (ARPA)
• “pine” (ARPA)
• “rn” (ARPA)
• “slrn” (ARPA)
• “tin” (ARPA)
• “trn” (ARPA)

• “curl”
• “ftp” (ARPA)
• “gopher”
• “kermit” (ARPA)
• “ncftpget” (ARPA)
• “rcp”
• “rsync” (MetaARPA)
• “scp” – copy files between machines using SSH (ARPA)
• “sftp” – secure file transfer protocol (ARPA)
• “snarf” (ARPA)
• “sz, rz, sb, rb, sx, rx”
• “tftp” (ARPA)
• “unison” (MetaARPA)
• “uucp”
• “wget” (ARPA)

• “6tunnel” – tunnel IPv6 connections over IPv4
• “cidr”
• “cu”
• “dig”
• “geoip”
• “host” – get the IP address for a domain name or vice versa
• “jwhois”
• “ldapsearch”
• “netstat”
• “nmap”
• “nslookup”
• “ping”
• “ruptime”
• “sipcalc”
• “traceroute” – follow the path packets take to a remote host
• “uux”
• “whois”
• “yuptime”
• “yusers”
• “ywho”

• “dict” – DICT protocol client
• “rlogin” (ARPA)
• “rsh”
• “ssh” (ARPA)
• “telnet” (ARPA)
• “tn3270”

• “bitchx” (ARPA)
• “bsflite” – AIM client (ARPA)
• “centerim” (ARPA)
• “climm” – ICQ client (ARPA)
• “epic” – IRC client (ARPA)
• “finch” – IRC client; only available on the NetBSD 5.0 hosts (ARPA)
• “irssi” – IRC client (MetaARPA)
• “naim” – AIM client (ARPA)
• “ninja” (ARPA)
• “profanity” – IRC client (MetaARPA)
• “scrollz” – IRC client (ARPA)
• “sic” (ARPA)
• “silc” (ARPA)
• “tac” (ARPA)
• “ttytter” – terminal-based Twitter client (ARPA)
• “xaric” – IRC client (ARPA)
• “ysm” – ICQ client (ARPA)

• “mesg”
• “talk”
• “wall”
• “write”
• “ytalk”

• “finger”
• “groups”
• “id”
• “logname”
• “whoami”

• “date”
• “domainname”
• “hostname”
• “machine”
• “uname”
• “uptime”
• “users”

• “env”
• “kill”
• “killall”
• “lsof”
• “nice”
• “nohup”
• “pkill”
• “printenv”
• “ps”
• “pstree” – display a tree of processes
• “time” – time how long it takes a program to run
• “top” (MetaARPA)
• “w”
• “watch” – watch a program with update intervals
• “who”

• “c++” (ARPA)
• “c89” (wrapper around “cc”)
• “cc” (ARPA)
• “clisp” (MetaARPA)
• “distcc”
• “distccd”
• “g++” – GNU C++ compiler (ARPA)
• “g77”
• “gcc” – GNU C compiler (ARPA)
• “jikes” (MetaARPA)
• “nasm” (MetaARPA)

• “cint” – C interpreter
• “hugs” – Haskell interpreter
• “java” (MetaARPA)
• “kaffe” (MetaARPA)
• “lisp” (MetaARPA; wrapper around “uxlisp”)
• “perl” – pathologically eclectic rubbish lister practical extraction & report language (ARPA)
• “php” – PHP: hypertext preprocessor (ARPA)
• “python” (ARPA)
• “ruby” (ARPA)

• “cvs”
• “git” (MetaARPA)
• “hg”
• “rcs”
• “sccs”
• “svn” (MetaARPA)

• “ant” (MetaARPA)
• “as” (ARPA)
• “asp2php”
• “autoconf”
• “automake”
• “bison” – GNU yacc
• “chicken”
• “cim”
• “cook”
• “cpp” – C preprocessor
• “cscope”
• “flex” – GNU lex (ARPA)
• “gcov”
• “gdb” – GNU debugger
• “gmake”
• “gprof”
• “ld” (ARPA)
• “lex” (ARPA)
• “lint”
• “m4”
• “make” (ARPA)
• “mkdep”
• “phpize”
• “yacc” – yet another compiler compiler (ARPA)

• “cksum”
• “gpg”
• “md5”
• “openssl”
• “pgp5”
• “sha1”
• “sum”

• “2vcard”
• “antiword”
• “asciidoc”
• “catdoc”
• “hevea”
• “latex2rtf”
• “makeinfo”
• “pdftohtml”
• “pdftotext”
• “richtext”
• “rtf2html”
• “rtf2LaTeX”
• “rtf2text”
• “rtf2troff”
• “texi2dvi”
• “troffcvt”
• “xlhtml”

• “aetar”
• “ar”
• “bsdtar”
• “bzip2”
• “compress”
• “cpio”
• “freeze”
• “gtar”
• “gzip”
• “lzop”
• “mousetar”
• “pax”
• “shar”
• “tar”
• “zip”
• “znew”
• “zoo”

• “caesar”
• “iconv”
• “mimencode”
• “rot13”
• “uuencode”
• “yencode”

• “mc”
• “vfu”
• “vifm”

• Manpages & *roff
  • “colcrt”
  • “eqn”
  • “groff”
  • “groffer”
  • “grog”
  • “grotty”
  • “nroff”
  • “pic”
  • “refer”
  • “tbl”
  • “troff”
  • “vgrind”
• PostScript & PDFs
  • “abcm2ps” – “Converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript format”
  • “diffpp”
  • “enscript”
  • “gs” (“ps2pdf”, “ps2ascii”, “pdf2ps”, “epstopdf”, etc.)
  • “ps2eps”
  • “psnup”
  • “yup”
• TeX, LaTeX, etc.
  • “dvipdf”
  • “dvips”
  • “etex”
  • “latex”
  • “lgrind”
  • “mf”
  • “mktexmf”
  • “mktexpk”
  • “mpost”
  • “pdfetex”
  • “pslatex”
  • “tex”

• “xmllint”
• “xmlto”
• “xsltproc”

• “less”
• “more”
• “most”
• “pg”

• “adv770”
• “animal” – the computer tries to guess what animal you're thinking of
• “atc” – air traffic controller game
• “backgammon” – the game of backgammon; play against the computer or a friend
• “battlestar” – “a tropical [text] adventure game”
• “bluemoon” – one of many solitaire card games
• “boggle”
• “c4” – Connect Four
• “canfield” – the solitaire card game canfield
• “cribbage” – the card game cribbage (played against the computer)
• “dinkum” – an Australian text-adventure game
• “dopewars”
• “dungeon”
• “fish” – Go Fish
• “gnuchess4”
• “hack”
• “knight” – Knight's Tour – move the knight to visit every square on the board
• “larn” – “exploring the caverns of Larn”
• “mdg”
• “monop” – Monopoly
• “moon-buggy”
• “moria”
• “motti”
• “nethack”
• “netris” – “A free networked version of T*tris”
• “nobs” – cribbage game
• “phantasia”
• “robots”
• “robots2”
• “rogue”
• “saa” – play the solitaire card game “streets and alleys”
• “ski” – “an unusual skiing simulation game”
• “snake”
• “sokoban”
• “tetris”
• “thxmoo”
• “tttt” – 4×4 Tic-Tac-Toe with wraparound edges
• “wand”
• “worm”
• “wump” – Hunt the Wumpus
• “zombies”

(Things otherwise classified as games but without a goal or in which the user doesn't really do anything)

• “anagram” – search the dictionary for anagrams of a word
• “arithmetic” – quiz on simple arithmetic
• “autopun” – “Phonetically Reparse an English Phrase”
• “aybabtu” – ASCII recreation of the ZeroWing opening sequence
• “banner”
• “bcd”
• “cookie”
• “countmail” – a program for laughing at the size of your inbox
• “cowsay” – an ASCII cow says stuff
• “crypto” – “a program to generate and/or solve cryptograms”
• “cursive”
• “dive”
• “factor”
• “figlet”
• “fortune”
• “macarena” – the horror… the horror…
• “macarena1” – the horror revisited
• “morse”
• “number” – convert Arabic numerals to English
• “phoon” – shows the phase of the moon ¹⁾ with an ASCII image
• “pig” – anslatetray exttay intoway Igpay Atinlay
• “pom” – display the phase of the moon
• “ppt”
• “primes”
• “quiz” – “random knowledge tests”
• “rain” – animated ASCII raindrops on a terminal
• “sonnet”
• “suicide”
• “suicide1”
• “suicide2”
• “suicide3”
• “wargames”
• “worms” – animate worms on a terminal
• “wtf”

• “frotz”
• “tf”

• “bc”
• “dc”
• “gnuplot”
• “mathomatic”

• ImageMagick (“animate”, “compare”, “composite”, “conjure”, “convert”, “display”, “identify”, “import”, “mogrify”, “montage”, “stream”)
• “compface”
• “gif2png”, “web2png” – convert GIFs to PNGs
• “jhead” – digital camera JPEG exif header manipulation tool
• “netpbm”
• “povray”

• “enchant”
• “hunspell”
• “ispell”

• “calendar”
• “leave”
• “remind”
• “todo”

(MetaARPA membership required)

• “bitmap”
• “ico”
• “imake”
• “luit”
• “mwm”
• “resize”
• “startx”
• “twm”
• “xcalc”
• “xclock”
• “xeyes”
• “xgamma”
• “xlsfonts”
• “xman”
• “xmh”
• “xsnow”
• “xterm”

• “mysql” (DBA)
• “psql” (DBA)
• “sqlite” (DBA)
• “sqlite3” (DBA)

• “r2e”
• “snownews” (ARPA)

• “clear” – clear the screen
• “lock” – reserve a terminal
• “stty” – set various options for the current terminal
• “tput”
• “tset”
• “tty” – give the name of your terminal

• “apropos” – search for programs by keywords in documentation
• “ascii”
• “info”
• “man” – view the manual page for a command
• “pinfo” – like “info”, but better
• “vilearn”
• “vimtutor”
• “whatis” – get a brief description of a command

• “find” – search a directory tree for files that match given criteria (MetaARPA)
• “locate” – search a database of files for ones with the given name
• “whereis”
• “which” – locate a program in your PATH

• Only programs that are located in the default users' PATH should be listed here; i.e., user-written software in “/sys/sdf/bin” should be left out.
• Custom commands specific to SDF should be left out. There is already a list of them here, or here.
• Make sure that a program is currently installed by seeing whether it exists in the PATH (e.g., with ““command -v program”” or ““finbin program””). There are many programs that don't have manual pages, and in some cases there may be manual pages left behind from old programs that were uninstalled.
• While you don't have to, it would be nice if you included a brief description of what each command does along with a link to its official project page (if any).
• Be sure to list membership requirements for programs that only ARPA or MetaARPA users can run.
• Try to only list programs that fall into a specific category. You may add a new category if you feel one is needed, but only if you can find more than one program that fits into the new category (three or four programs seems like a good minimum, but we won't force you to follow this rule).
• If you don't know what a program does (at least not well enough to place it into a category), don't add it.
• If several closely-related programs come together as part of the same package (e.g., “strfile” and “unstr” with “fortune”, or all of the GhostScript programs), only give the name of the main program.
• If a program currently just doesn't work (e.g., “hnb”), don't list it here.

$Id: software.html,v 1.16 2012/01/25 21:49:32 smj Exp $ Software Packages on SDF by Category - traditional link (using RCS)