1 [[!meta title="Is language "foo" or software package "bar" installed?"]]
2 If you’d like to check whether the service has certain software
3 installed, you can [ssh to scripts.mit.edu](/faq/41) from an Athena
4 computer (you must first have signed up for one of the script
7 The service supports essentially any programming language with a
8 Linux implementation. If you want to use a language (or language
9 version) that is not installed on the server, you can either
10 contact us at scripts@mit.edu (we might be able to install what you
11 want) or you can use a
12 [shebang line](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)) (and
13 provide your own binary in AFS). Since the server is running Linux,
14 custom shebang lines must point to Linux-compatible executables.
16 Here’s a shebang line demo:
17 [code](http://web.mit.edu/~jbarnold/web_scripts/demo/demo.cgi.html)
18 | [output](http://scripts.mit.edu/~jbarnold/demo/demo.cgi)
20 We also have instructions for
21 [installing Python libraries into your locker](/faq/126/).