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Scientific installation on MAC (Snow leopard)

• uname -a
  

  Darwin dhcp169.pp.rhul.ac.uk 10.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 11:58:09 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

• gcc -v
  

  Using built-in specs.
  Target: i686-apple-darwin10
  Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5646.1~2/src/configure --disable-checking --enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin10 --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.2.1 --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 --target=i686-apple-darwin10
  Thread model: posix
  gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)

• port -v
  

  MacPorts 1.8.2

• python 2.6.5 (python26)
• ipython 0.1 (py26-ipython)
• matplotlib 0.99.1.2+tkinter (py26-matplotlib)
• setuptools 06c11 (py26-setuptools)
• sympy 0.6.3 (py26-sympy)
• PIL 1.1.7 (py26-pil)
• ScientificPython 2.8 (py26-scientific)
• scipy 0.7.2 (py26-scipy)
• gsl 1.14 (gsl)
• pyglet 1.1.4 (py26-pyglet)

Non-standard packages

• EPICS (R3.14.11)
• pyminuit
• Minuit (Minuit-1_7_9)
• pyfits
• pygsl
• cothread
• greenlet
• avbin-darwin-universal-5.zip

Best things I've found

• Link multiple Mac windows together over the network teleport
• iTunes for scientific papers