These are some useful packages for the laptops:

Development:

• subversion
• mercurial (hg)
• git
• texlive-full
• cmake
• build-essential
• opencv 2.0.0-4
• gdb
• gprofiler/etc
• ssh

Mobile Robots:

• Cyton (arm software) - http://robots.mobilerobots.com/wiki/Cyton_7DOF_Arm_Software
• Mobile Sim
• Aria
• ARNL
• GPS localization
• MobileEyes
• Joystick Driver, etc...

Player/Stage:

• this whole mess

ETC...

• Ogre ODE
• Blender
• RobotTestSuite
• boost libraries

-- StephenFox - 2010-09-02