University provides faculty, staff and students is a free subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud suite. This includes Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Premier, Illustrator and other services including an extensive font library.

You can install Adobe apps on all your devices (desktop, laptop, mobile devices and tablets), however you can only have it activated on two devices and use it on one device at a time.

The license is valid for one year, and you will be prompted to renew via your Princeton email.

All cycle servers have DevToolSet installed and gcc versions 4.9.2 and 5.3.1 are available. Version 4.8.5 is the default gcc version. You can use scl to control which version you want to use (bash starts a new shell with all variables set).

devtoolset-3 - version 4.9.2
devtoolset-4 - version 5.3.1

Requests for Software Installation

Requests for software installation should be sent to csstaff@cs.princeton.edu. Please include what you want installed, where you want it installed, what it does, and a pointer to an official ftp/web site from which the software can be obtained. Source code is always preferred but we will install prebuilt binaries if necessary. Be sure to include any licensing restrictions and how you intend to pay for it if it needs to be purchased. Lastly, please, tell us how urgent the request is and include any deadlines involved.

Princeton University has purchased licenses for MATLAB as well as a substantial number of MATLAB Toolboxes. This software can be used on CS public use servers (cycles), including the ionic cluster, as well as individual users' machines. Installation instructions and detailed licensing information can be found on OIT's Princeton Software MATLAB page.

Microsoft Windows

There are several open source packages for X11 available for Windows. In the Spring of 2011, COS 333 had students use Xming. 

Mac OS

From Apple's Knowledge Base HT5293

X11 is not included with Mountain Lion, but X11 server and client libraries for OS X Mountain Lion are available from the XQuartz project: http://xquartz.macosforge.org. You should use XQuartz version 2.7.2 or later.

The CS Department maintains local mirrors of the following linux distributions:

• RedHat
• Fedora
• CentOS
• Slackware

If you would like to download software from the local mirror please use the following link:

• ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/

Software may be purchased through the Princeton Software Repository -- the PSR Web Store. The Web Store is an online site for making software purchases. All the software purchases made through OIT’s Software Sales are processed through the PSR Web Store.

This page has links to software that is commonly used in the department.  You can also find software at the Campus Princeton Software site and the OIT software site:

• OIT Software Services
• Princeton Software

Click on the links below to download the software:

Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a Microsoft Program that supports technical education by providing access to Microsoft software for learning, teaching and research purposes. The University has a subscription to the Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching. All of the software licensed by Microsoft and is available for download by using your University account. Microsoft offers this software for academic use only.

OIT has site licenses and volume purchase agreement software available to faculty, staff and students. Here are some links to OIT to find a  list of available software:

Software of Students
Software for Faculty and Staff