Cernlib is a suite of data analysis tools and libraries created for use in physics experiments, but also with applications to other fields such as the biological sciences.

the packlib library includes a great deal of cernlib core functionality. best-known are probably the minuit function minimization routines, the hbook histogramming routines, and kuip (kit for a user interface package). other subsystems include cspack, a set of client-server routines; ffread, a format-free input processing system for fortran; and zebra, a data structure management package.

this package also includes kuesvr, the kuip edit server program that permits calling an editor asynchronously from within a kuip-based program.

please note that the graphical functionality of kuip has been split out into the separate libpacklib-lesstif1-gfortran package so that this package need not depend upon the x libraries. in order to compile and link programs against libpacklib, you must also install the libpacklib1-dev (and maybe also the libpacklib-lesstif1-dev) package(s).