Software

I need specific software for my studies or exercises, to what should I pay special regard to?

• If it is free software, normally there are no problems.
• If it is commercial software, the financing has to be clarified before.
• In general we won't distribute any software, if we think it can lead to greater problems with the rest of the systems.
• Please send software requests to the following email address: problems@cip.cs.fau.de and pay attention to the upper points!

There has been this software last semester, but now i can't find it. What happened?

Not all licenses for software are renewed automatically each semester. If there are apparently no requests for a specified software, it will not be renewed anymore. If you want to make sure, that a specific software is available next semester, you can write us an email to following address: problems@cip.cs.fau.de

I need some special python packages, what should I do?

• We use Anaconda for additional python packages. You may use it by typing module load python.
• After loading the module you can list installed packages with the command conda list.

How can I get a list of installed software packages?

• dpkg --get-selections shows the packages, which are installed on Debian
• To find a specific Debian-package, use apt search <package>. This will also show you if the software is installed or not.

Additional Software

• There is additional software available through the Environment Module System:
  • Basic terminal knowledge as well as a running terminal is required
  • Run module available to list all additional software packages
  • Run module load <package> to make the package's binary locally available for the duration of your session
  • Finally run the Software by typing softwarename in your terminal