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• Pubsw Overview
• Installed Software
• Supported Architectures

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Pubsw Software

Introduction

The pubsw software tree provided over 500 free and site-licensed software packages installed in AFS for multiple versions of UNIX. It was available to any machine at Stanford running a supported version of UNIX and mounting AFS. The pubsw software tree was originally created before there was a way of getting publicly available software without building it yourself.

The pubsw tree is now deprecated and is being slowly phased out. Operating system distributors, particularly on Linux, now do a better job at providing a wide range of supported and maintained software packages than any single institution could do. It no longer makes sense to invest Stanford's resources in recreating their work. Instead, we encourage all former users of pubsw to switch to OS-provided packages for general software. We are instead focusing our efforts on improving support of software that's specific to Stanford.

For the time being, pubsw is still available for Linux only. If you wish to use the software that's there, you need to install AFS on your Linux machine. The provided instructions explain how to create the /usr/pubsw link on your system, and then all pubsw software will be found under that directory. To best use the software, /usr/pubsw/bin should be added to your path. We encourage all users of pubsw to only do this as a temporary measure and to work towards switching to native packages for your operating system.

Licensed Software

Also maintained through the same mechanisms as the pubsw software tree are the licensed software installations for the UNIX Computing Resources timeshare systems. These packages will continue to be supported, but are not a campus service. They are restricted by licensing to only the UNIX Computing Resources at Stanford environment. Information about them is available from the package information links below.

Available Software

See the installed pubsw software page for a complete list of software currently installed in pubsw, sorted by category. This list includes the version installed, a brief description, and a list of all files contained in that package. An alternate view of the same information is also available, sorted without regard to category.

pubsw is only supported on Linux and requires glibc 2.3 or later. Frozen trees are still available for other versions of UNIX, but those trees will receive no updates (not even for security vulnerabilities).