Locker Software Maintained by SIPB

SIPB maintains software in a number of lockers. At some point we may even list all the lockers and all the software. For now, here is an incomplete list of some of the lockers:

sipb: The sipb locker is the primary locker for software supported by sipb. It contains a wide variety of software.; The outland locker is the primary locker for unsupported SIPB software. It contains software that SIPB members think is useful, but which is not suitable for the sipb locker. Software may be here because we don't trust it not to break, or because we don't want to find updated versions, or because no member is willing to take responsibility for it. Other lockers also semi-maintained by sipb include the editors and perlmacs locker. Send mail to for questions, comments, or more information.; Some crypto software, including ssh for older platforms and pgp/gpg.; Assorted pieces of graphics software. Favorites are xv (a viewer) and gimp (an editor). A related locker is the dia locker, which contains a tool for writing diagrams.; Newtex contains an install of tetex which is no longer really new. It continues to provide tex and latex packages not included with Athena, an older tex/latex (which is sometimes useful) and an object lesson about the dangers of naming software "new".; the PHP.net command-line interface, selected modules, and a supporting MySQL client
Contact: php, presbrey

What's in a locker?

There is no really easy way to see what is in a locker. However, most programs have man pages, which you can read easily if you know the name of the program. To get a list of all the programs in a locker that are built for the platform you are logged in on, try the following at the Athena prompt. The first line is just to make less available.

athena% add sipb athena% add lockername athena% ls /mit/lockername/bin | less

This will give you a list of all the programs in that locker built for the sort of computer you are using. To see the manpage for a program, enter the following:

athena% man programname

What locker is foo in?

There is a tool in the outland locker called whichlocker which will search all of the Athena lockers we know about and find a particular program by name. It works like this:

athena% add outland athena% whichlocker gimp Locker software on Athena is maintained by many different people. Don't run these programs unless you know the maintainer can be trusted: "gimp" is installed in "graphics" for linux, sgi, and sun4. "gimp" is installed in "gimp-1.2" for linux, sgi, and sun4.

As the disclaimer says, it's important to remember that many different people maintain locker software on Athena, and not all of them can be trusted to do a good job. Usually its a good idea to know who runs the lockers you use.