RMITCS Student Software CD 2008

This CD has been put together by the Duty Programmers of RMITCS in order to assist students without internet access from home. It contains a number of software packages which we believe will be of use in your studies here in RMITCS. However, we can not provide any support for these packages on your personal computer.

Although every effort has been made to check that the software on this CD works safely, should you choose to install any of it on your personal machine, you do so at your own risk.

 MinGW-5.1.3.exe

Native Windows port of the GNU C/C++ compiler, linker and debugger, latest version.

 devcpp-4.9.9.2_setup.exe

Includes the MinGW versions of the GNU C/C++ Compiler, Linker and Debugger, plus Dev-Cpp IDE. Although this installs GCC and GDB, it does not set up your PATH environment variable to use them from the command line. You will need to add the Dev-Cpp “bin” directory (default: “C:\Dev-Cpp\bin”) to your PATH manually.

 PAGEANT.EXE
 PLINK.EXE
 PSCP.EXE
 PSFTP.EXE
 PUTTY.CHM
 PUTTY.CNT
 PUTTY.EXE
 PUTTY.HLP
 PUTTYGEN.EXE

These programs make up the PuTTY collection. They allow you to log into a yallara/numbat text session and transfer files to and from your CS account.

 winscp406.exe

WinSCP is a GUI frontend to the PuTTY file transfer programs, and makes it easy to transfer files to and from your CS account.

 Firefox Setup 2.0.0.12.exe

Web Browser. Also can be used for viewing many files including XML and SVG.

 SecureW2_TTLS_333.zip

WPA Supplicant, required for using the RMIT-WPA wireless access points with Windows. See http://www.rmit.edu.au/its/wireless for further information.

 Thunderbird Setup 2.0.0.12.exe

Email, Usenet and RSS client.

 Xming-6-9-0-31-setup.exe

X server for windows, allows you to run graphical programs on CS machines from home. See https://inside.cs.rmit.edu.au/support/inside:xming for instructions. Xming requires PuTTY to be installed.

 Xming-fonts-7-3-0-11-setup.exe

Extra fonts for Xming. These can reduce lag and bandwidth costs, and should be installed if fonts appear wrong in Xming.

 Xming-tools-and-clients-6-9-0-28.zip

Extra X tools for Xming. This includes many standard X utilities such as xset, xsetroot, xlsfonts, xdpyinfo etc.

 putty-0.60-installer.exe

PuTTY SSH client. This allows you to log into a yallara/numbat text session This installer includes pscp and psftp which allow you to transfer files to and from your CS account.

 winscp406setup.exe

WinSCP is a GUI frontend to the PuTTY file transfer programs, and makes it easy to transfer files to and from your CS account. WinSCP requires PuTTY to be installed or in the current directory (or PATH).

 pgadmin3-1.8.2-2.zip

Postgres relational database.

 postgresql-8.3.0-1.zip

Admin tool for Postgres.

 easyeclipse-desktop-java-1.3.1.1.exe

Includes Eclipse and the Java SDK. The installer does not set up your PATH environment variable to use javac/java from the command line. To use javac and java from the command line you will need to add the JRE “bin” directory (default: “C:\Program Files\EasyEclipse Desktop Java 1.3.1\jre\bin”) to your PATH manually.

 7z457.exe

7Zip File compressor/decompressor. Supports packing and unpacking of: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR, and unpacking of many other file types.

 gvim71.exe

gVim is a GUI version of the popular Vim text editor. Includes plugins for syntax highlighting.

 LyX-1.5.4-1-Installer-Bundle.exe

LyX is a word-processor with a LaTeX backend. LyX can export to TeX files and PDF. Includes MikTeX and BibTeX support.

LyX requires Ghostscript to be installed when working with PS and PDF files.

LyX requires aspell to be installed for spellchecking.

 aspell6-en-6.0-0.exe

English spelling dictionaries used by LyX.

 vlc-0.8.6e-win32.exe

VLC is a audio/video supports playback of many media files without requiring codecs to be installed.

 OpenGLUT.0.6.3.DevPak

OpenGLUT free GLUT replacement. Note that this package requires Dev-Cpp and must be installed through the Dev-Cpp DevPak manager.

 openglut-0.6.3-doc.tar.gz

Documentation for OpenGLUT.

 SDL-1.2.13-win32.zip

SDL libraries and headers for MinGW.

 sdldoc-html.zip

SDL Documentation.

 glew-1.5.0-win32.zip

GLEW libraries and headers for MinGW.

 AdbeRdr812_en_US.exe

Adobe Acrobat reader for reading .PDF files.

 PDFCreator-0_9_5_setup.exe

Allows you to “print” to a PDF file, so you can export practically any document to PDF.

 gs861w32.exe

Ghostscript Postscript and PDF utilities. Some programs on this CD require Ghostscript to be installed.

 gsv49w32.exe

GSView postscript and PDF viewer.

 php-5.2.5-win32-installer.msi

PHP scripting language. If you wish to use PHP with Apache, you must install Apache first.

 php_manual_en.chm

PHP Documentation.

 php_manual_en.html.zip

PHP Documentation.

 python-2.5.2.msi

Python scripting language. If you wish to use Python with Apache, you must install Apache first.

 python-doc-html-2.5.2.zip

Python documentation.

 MC68K.zip
 easysim.zip

These simulators are used in the Computing Organisation subject (formerly Computer Systems).

 ArgoUML-0.24.zip

A UML modelling and design tool.

 argomanual.html.gz

Manual for ArgoUML.

 dia-setup-0.96.1-6.exe

Dia is a simple flowcharting tool.

 TortoiseCVS-1.10.5.exe

A GUI version of CVS which integrates with the Windows shell. This does not require other versions of CVS to be installed.

 TortoiseSVN-1.4.8.12137-win32-svn-1.4.6.msi

A GUI version of Subversion which integrates with the Windows shell. This does not require other versions of SVN/Subversion to be installed.

 cvs-1-11-22.zip

CVS (commandline version only).

 svn-1.4.6-setup.exe

Subversion, a version control system similar to CVS but with greater stability and efficiency (commandline version only).

 apache-tomcat-6.0.16.exe

Tomcat Java Servlet container for Apache. You will not need this unless you are working on Java Server Pages. You need to install Apache before installing Tomcat.

 apache_2.2.8-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8g.msi

Apache web server. You should install this before Tomcat, PHP or Python if you wish to use them with Apache. WARNING: Installing a web server on your computer may be a security risk.

 httpd-docs-2.2.2.en.chm

Documentation for Apache.

 abiword-setup-2.4.6.exe

Abiword is a simple, fast and lightweight word processor.

 abiword-plugins-impexp-2.4.6.exe

Abiword plugins for importing and exporting, including Microsoft Word and DocBook.

 abiword-plugins-tools-2.4.6.exe

Extra plugins for Abiword.

 AbiWord_Dictionary_British.exe

Australian/British dictionaries for Abiword spellchecker.

 OOo_2.3.1_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe

Free office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, etc. Can read most Microsoft Office files and export to PDF.

 en_AU.zip

Australian English Dictionaries for the OpenOffice spellchecker and thesaurus. To install, go to the OpenOffice Writer File Menu, select “Wizards” and “Install new dictionaries”. Choose the dictionary files, then exit and re-start OpenOffice.org, including the Quickstarter (if used).