Calculator applications available in FreeBSD

mohamad wael
4 min readSep 29, 2020

There are multiple calculator application that can be used in freebsd . You can use the command pkg search calc in order to find calculators .

$ pkg search calc 
# search for an application , which has ,
# in its name the pattern calc
CalculiX-ccx-2.16_2 Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program
R-cran-epicalc-2.15.1.0_11 Epidemiological calculator
acalc-0.3 Simple and pretty Qt5-based expression calculator
calc-2.12.7.2_1 Arbitrary precision calculator
calcoo-1.3.18_7 RPN and algebraic scientific calculator
calculix-2.16.1 Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program
calcurse-4.5.1 Text-based calendar and scheduling application
gnome-calculator-3.28.2_2 GNOME 3 calculator tool
gnu-ipcalc-0.2.3_1 Modern network address calculation tool for IPv4 and IPv6
hexcalc-1.11_3 Multi-radix calculator for x11
ipcalc-0.41_3 IP Calculator
ipv6calc-2.2.0 Convert, change, and calculate with IPv6 addresses
kcalc-20.04.2 Scientific calculator for KDE
lcalc-1.23_1 L-function c++ class library and the CLI program lcalc
libticalcs2-1.1.9 TI calculator library
lrcalc-1.2_1 Littlewood-Richardson Calculator
lumina-calculator-1.6.0 Scientific calculator from the Lumina Desktop
mate-calc-1.24.0 MATE calculator tool based on the old calctool for OpenWindows
mbasecalc-1.1_8 Simple calculator program inspired by basecalc
p5-CAD-Calc-0.27_2 Generic cad-related geometry calculations
p5-Color-Calc-1.074_1 Simple calculations with RGB colors
p5-Date-Calc-6.4 Gregorian calendar date calculations
p5-Date-Calc-Iterator-1.02 Iterate over a range of dates
p5-Date-Calc-XS-6.4 XS wrapper and C library plug-in for Date::Calc
p5-Date-Pcalc-6.1_1 Gregorian calendar date calculations
p5-DateTime-Util-Calc-0.13002_4 DateTime Calculation Utilities
p5-Math-BaseCalc-1.019 Convert numbers between various bases
p5-Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.5009 Math::BigInt::Calc with some XS for more speed
p5-Math-Calc-Units-1.07_1 Human-readable unit-aware calculator
p5-WWW-Google-Calculator-0.07_1 Simple interface for Google calculator
pantheon-calculator-1.5.5 Simple calculator written in Vala
physcalc-2.4_1 Flexible calculator that behaves much like units(1)
py27-gcalcli-4.0.4_1 Google Calendar Command Line Interface
py27-ipcalc-1.99.0 Module to perform IP subnet calculations
py37-gcalcli-4.0.4_1 Google Calendar Command Line Interface
py37-ipcalc-1.99.0 Module to perform IP subnet calculations
rofi-calc-1.7 Do live calculations in rofi
rpcalc-0.8.2_3 Simple RPN calculator
sipcalc-1.1.6 IP subnet calculator with IPv6 support
sscalc-1.0 Sunrise and sunset time calculator
subcalc-1.3 Advanced IP/IPv6 subnet calculation and discovery
subnetcalc-2.4.15 IPv4/IPv6 Subnet Calculator
transcalc-0.14_12 Analysis and synthesis tool for RF and microwave transmission lines
wcalc-2.5_3 Natural-expression command-line calculator
wikicalc-1.0 Open Source Wiki-Spreadsheet
wmCalClock-1.26_1 Another Window Maker calendar/clock dockapp
xcalc-1.1.0 Scientific calculator for X
xfce4-calculator-plugin-0.7.0_1 Simple calculator for the Xfce panel

acalc

The acalc application can be installed by issuing the command pkg install acalc . It has two views , simple and original which contains more functions .

acalc orginal view

gnome-calculator

The gnome calculator can be installed by issuing the command pkg install gnome-calculator . it has a basic mode , an advanced mode , a financial mode , a programming mode , and a keyboard mode .

gnome-calculator advanced and programming modes .

kcalc

This calculator created by kde , can be installed by using the command pkg install kcalc. It has a simple mode , a science mode , a statistic mode and a numeral system mode.

kcalc numeral and statistic mode .

mate-calc

The mate-calc can be installed by using pkg install mate-calc . It has a basic mode , an advanced mode , a financial mode , and a programming mode .

mate-calc advanced and financial mode

Originally published at https://twiserandom.com on September 29, 2020.

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