Useful Software on Linux

1. PDF
   
   • Reader
   • Editor
     
     • pdfedit
       Installation: apt-get install pdfedit
       Usage:  pdfedit /path/to/xxx.pdf &
       
     • xournal
       Installation: apt-get install xournal
       
     • pdktk
2. xxx
   

1, Dictionary
(1) StarDict
download from (1)
(2)

    a). tar xvfz stardict-2.4.2.tar.gz
    b). cd stardict-2.4.2
    c). sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm
    d). stardict &


2, Multimedia
(1) xine
(2) xmms
(3) Mplayer

3, Flash Player
(1) install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
    you can download from


4, Compress and Decompress
(1) RAR
    a). download library compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm
    b). download RAR for Linux
        you can download from
    c). sudo rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm
    d). tar xvzf rarlinux-3.5.1.tar.gz
    e). cd rar;sudo make

    decompress: rar e xxx.rar

5, Chm File Reader
(1) chmview
    a). download chmview package.
        you can download from
       
    b). gunzip  chmview.gz
    c). chmod a+x chmview
    d). sudo mv chmview /usr/local/bin
    e). cd /usr/local/bin
    f). rename chmview according your browser.
        for opera    : sudo mv chmview chmview_opera
        for firefox  : sudo mv chmview chmview_fox
        for mozilla  : sudo mv chmview chmview_moz
        for konqueror: sudo mv chmview chmview_konq
    g). to run chmview, you can type chmview_xxx chm_file_name,
        or press right button of mouse on XWindow,then select "property",and
        select chmview_xxx in "open type" proterty page.

(2) displaychm


6, VMware
(1) wine
    you can execute exe file made on Win32 using this tool.
(2) VMware
(3) VMware player.

7, Ethereal
    ethreal is a famous graphical network port detector. it can be used on Linux, Solaris, SGI, and Win32. like tcpdump, it capture and analyze packages in shared network environment.
    a) please install pcap (libpcap), which is library used by ethereal.
    b) download ethereal from
        then install.

8, VNC
    it is a terminal to make user to control remote mathine. it consists of VNCServer and VNCViewer.

9, Version control tools
(1) CVS
(2) SVN: subversion is better than CVS.

10, taglist.
vim+ctags+taglist 可以提供很强的程序阅读功能。
taglist的安装方法：
(1) 从下载 taglist.zip, 并解压文件到$HOME/.vim 或 $HOME/vimfiles或$VIM/vimfiles， 若文件夹不存在， 可手动创建。
(2) 移动当前目录到$HOME/.vim/doc或$HOME/vimfiles/doc或$VIM/vimfiles/doc中， 注意与（1）保持一致。并启动vim, 运行命令:helptags ~/.vim/doc 或 :helptags ~/vimfiles/doc 或 :helptags $VIM/vimfiles/doc。
(3) 从此， 使用vim时， 只需键入命令:TlistToggle便可进入taglist。

11， xlock 屏幕保护程序。

13, Bugzilla 软件开发过程中的BUG管理工具.