Installing extra applications for Windows 10

Misc notes

Some applications can be installed directly from the Microsoft Store but you will have to download and execute the installer for most of the applications listed below

You should be running the 64bit version of Windows 10, so download the 64bit version of the installers

Installed applications

Firefox and Thunderbird

Firefox

Thunderbird

XnView MP

XnView MP is the enhanced version of XnView Classic. It is a powerful picture viewer, browser and converter for Windows, Mac and Linux. This software can read more than 500 formats change picture size, reduce picture file size and much more!

For simple screenshots and/or annotating images, you can also launch the builtin Snip & Sketch (Capture d'écran et croquis) tool from the Start menu

PuTTY & Pageant

PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

PuTTY is basically an ssh client that will allow you to connect to the LSCE servers with a very efficient text terminal (install VcXsrv and select Enable X11 forwarding in PuTTY if you need to open graphical windows on the remote servers)

The best way to use PuTTY, is to use it with Pageant:

Start Menu => Putty menu => Pageant (this will just put the Pageant icon in the rightmost part of the taskbar, the icon may even me masked)

Right-click on the Pageant icon and choose:

New session to define a new server you want to connect to

Recommended settings:

Saved Sessions to connect to a server

Add key to select a private ssh key and type/store the matching pass phrase (if you have a private ssh key you generated on Linux, you need to convert it with Putty Menu => PuTTYgen)

If you have installed WSL+Ubuntu, you can just open a terminal and type ssh server to connect to the server

WinSCP

WinSCP is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows! Copy file between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols.

WinSCP will automatically use the private ssh key stored in Pageant (installed with Putty) for authentication, if Pageant is running

You can use WinSCP to transfer files between your computer and ssh1 when you are outside LSCE.

When you are on the LSCE network, you should directly use local folders on the LSCE servers

If you have installed WSL+Ubuntu, you can directly use scp from a terminal!

VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Python

Depending on which kind of data, you can install a Python distribution either directly in Windows, or in the Linux section (WSL + Ubuntu or some other Linux flavor) of the computer

CDAT

CDAT is a Python distribution for the climate scientist. It can only be installed in the WSL+Ubuntu part of a Win10 computer. Check the installation instructions for 8.1 (or later)

Anaconda

The Anaconda Python distribution can be installed either directly in Win10, or in the WSL+Ubuntu part of Win10. CDAT (above) uses Anaconda for its installation

Canopy

The Enthought Canopy Python distribution can be installed either directly in Win10, or in the WSL+Ubuntu part of Win10.

VcXsrv Windows X Server

Once VcXsrv is installed (see below), follow the VcXsrv on Win10 extra steps to solve the resolution problems (blurry text, etc...)
Check the Win7 VcXrv section

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Check the WSL page if you want to execute Ubuntu (or another Linux) on your Win10 computer