Debian Astro Scisoft packages

Scisoft packages

Here we list the status of the packages that belong to the SciSoft distribution. Scisoft is a project within ESO to provide a collection of astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at all ESO sites and to make them available to the outside world. The package list was retrieved in April, 2018.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Package Version Description
aladin 12.060+dfsg-3 Interactive sky atlas for astronomical images and datasets
eso-midas 22.02pl1.0-2 European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System
fitscut 1.4.4-6 Extract cutouts from FITS image format files
fitsverify 4.22-1 FITS File Format-Verification Tool
ftools-fv 5.5+dfsg-2 Tool for viewing and editing FITS format files
funtools 1.4.7-4 Minimal buy-in FITS utility package
ggobi 2.1.11-2 Data visualization system for high-dimensional data
grace 5.1.25-13 XY graphing and plotting tool
graphviz 2.42.2-7 rich set of graph drawing tools
ipython3 7.20.0-1+deb11u1 New upstream version 8.22.2 available Enhanced interactive Python 3 shell
iraf 2.17.1-5 Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
iraf-fitsutil 2018.07.06-3 FITS utilities for IRAF
iraf-mscred 5.05+2018.07.09-1 CCD mosaic reduction package for IRAF
iraf-rvsao 2.8.3-1 IRAF package to obtain radial velocities from spectra
iraf-xdimsum 2003.01.24-2 Deep Infrared Mosaicing Software
libatlas-dev 3.10.2-7 New upstream version 3.11.41 available Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, C header files
libccfits-dev 2.6+dfsg-1 static library for I/O with FITS format data files
libcfitsio-bin 4.3.1-1.1 New upstream version 4.4.0 available CFITSIO based utilities
libcfitsio-dev 3.490-3 New upstream version 4.4.0 available library for I/O with FITS format data files (development files)
libgsl-dev 2.5+dfsg-6 GNU Scientific Library (GSL) -- development package
liblapack-dev 3.12.0-3 Library of linear algebra routines 3 - static version
libplplot-dev 5.15.0+dfsg2-9 Scientific plotting library (development files)
libtk-img-dev 1.4.14+dfsg-2 Extended image format support for Tcl/Tk (development files)
libwcstools-dev 3.9.7-1 Handle the WCS of a FITS image (development files)
plotutils 2.6-10 GNU plotutils command line tools based on libplot
python-pmw 1.3.2-6 Pmw -- Python MegaWidgets
python-wxgtk3.0 3.0.2.0+dfsg-8 Python interface to the wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit
python3-astropy 4.2-6 Core functionality for performing astrophysics with Python
python3-drizzle 1.3-2 Dithered image combination for Python
python3-gnuplot 1.8-8 Python interface to the gnuplot plotting program
python3-matplotlib 3.3.4-1 New upstream version 3.8.3 available Python based plotting system in a style similar to Matlab (Python 3)
python3-numpy 1.24.2-1 Fast array facility to the Python language (Python 3)
python3-pil 2.6.1-2+deb8u3 Python Imaging Library (Python3)
python3-pyds9 1.8.1-5 Communication with the ds9 image display program from Python
python3-pyraf 2.2.1-2 Python interface for IRAF
python3-pysynphot 0.9.12+dfsg-3 Python Synthetic Photometry Utilities
python3-scipy 0.14.0-2 New upstream version 1.13.0~rc1 available scientific tools for Python 3
python3-tk 3.9.2-1 Tkinter - Writing Tk applications with Python 3.x
qfitsview 4.1+dfsg-1 FITS file viewer based on DPUSER
saods9 7.3.2+repack-1 New upstream version 8.6~b1 available Image display tool for astronomy
scamp 2.0.4-3 Compute astrometric and photometric solutions
skycat 3.1.2+starlink1~b+dfsg-7 Image visualization and access to catalogs and data for astronomy
stilts 3.4.9-5 Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
theli 3.1.4-1 Astronomical image data reduction pipeline
topcat 4.9-1 Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
wcstools 3.9.7-1 Handle the WCS of a FITS image
xgterm 2.0+2020.06.15+dfsg-1~bpo10+1 Terminal emulator to work with IRAF
ximtool 2.0+2020.06.15+dfsg-1~bpo10+1 Interactive image display program for the X Window System

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Package Version Description
python-pybiggles 1.6.6-2 Scientific plotting package for Python

Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

Package Version Description
cloudy 13.04-1 Photoionization simulations for the discriminating astrophysicist since 1978
iraf-ctio 1994.02.17-1 CTIO tools
miriad Calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data
xephem 4.2.0+ds-1 Interactive astronomical ephemeris for X

No known packages available but some record of interest (WNPP bug)

Package Version Description
splat-vo Spectral Analysis Tool

No known packages available

Package Version Description
cdsclient Tools to query databases at CDS
eso-eclipse C Library for an Image Processing Software Environment
hyperz Photometric Redshift Code
iraf-color Utilities for creating colour images
iraf-guiapps Graphical applications for IRAF
iraf-mxtools Utilities from NOAO including QDPHOT
iraf-stecf Utilities from ST-ECF
iraf-tables HST data analysis and tables systems
karma Toolkit for IPC, authentication, graphics display etc.
plastic PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterConnection
pymidas Python interface for ESO-MIDAS
python-asciidata Python module to handle ASCII tables
python-multidrizzle Automatic image combination drizzling software
python-numeric Python module for high-performance, numeric computing
python-pydrizzle Drizzling software
specview 1-D spectral visualization and analysis of astronomical spectrograms
tiny-tim HST point-spread function simulation software
virgo Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility
voplot VOTable plotting tool
vospec tool for handling Virtual Observatory compliant Spectra