Installing the WQGDSS

Installing the South African Water Quality Guidelines for Freshwater Ecosystems - Version 2

Installing the DSS is a straightforward Windows application install

  1. Download the installer from this link WQGDSS download
  2. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install.
  3. An icon with a leopard face will be created on your desktop, double click it to run the WQGDSS.

Technical Note: This application was developed in Lazarus IDE using the 32bit Free Pascal Compiler and compiled into an installer using Inno Setup (http://www.innosetup.com) via the Inno Script Studio application (https://www.kymoto.org/). 

The installer and application are unsigned.  Windows will moan, but the program will work fine.  Do ensure that you downloaded them from the official IWR website https://www.ru.ac.za/iwr and verify one of the checksums given below.

Application version is 1.0.0.47 dated 2024-03-06

If you want to verify the downloaded file the MD5 checksum is (WQGDSS-setup.exe) = 1a2adaac87ca512fd9315156c2e35eeb

The SHA256 checksum is (WQGDSS-setup.exe) = f5dded13af01a3f2c207b94aa39e6ad63bb4f09c30122d493d17364189349f69

 

Last Modified: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:35:06 SAST