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1. Lecture: 2-2

• Prerequisites for this lecture are: 1-1 and .

2. Installing VMware image of Debian 10

• you will need to download this zip archive: http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/targz/deb10.zip
• you will need to obtain a legal vmplayer, an evaluation/home use can be tried here evaluation-home-student
• if you are a University of SouthWales student you can email Robert Thomas in our dept for a VMware licence. He needs to register you to the VMware academic programme. Please only email him from a University email account.
• to install on a GNU/Linux machine you need to:

• $ cd
  $ mkdir VMware
  $ cd VMware
  $ wget http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/targz/deb10.zip
  $ unzip deb10.zip

• you need to install vmplayer using the instructions provided by VMware
• now start vmplayer
• 
  $ vmplayer &
• you should now open a virtual machine and choose the top Debian 10
  • this also contains a number of SouthWales packages added and github sources installed in $HOME/Sandpit as per lecture/tutorial notes for the Game Tool Development and Game Engine Design modules.
  • your account name is: student and password is a
  • the root account password is also a
    

3. About this USW VMware image

• it is based on the Debian 64bit Buster distribution
• as far as known it has all the tools necessary to complete the courseworks for Game Engine Design, Game Tool Development and Operating Systems
  • caveat, there maybe additional packages, necessary, but these should be a single command line instruction away
• it comes with gcc , g++ , gdb , vi , emacs , python3 , python2 , pge , chisel , gm2 , openconnect (a vpn client) and thousands of other packages
  • C++-17 is also installed as an extra, the gcc-10 is also installed which contains detailed semantic analysis of your C programs!

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