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- Macs and Linux have Terminal programs built-in – find it now on your computer
- Windows needs help
- Putty – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
- simple Terminal and file copy programs
- download either the Putty installer (https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty-64bit-0.70-installer.msi)
- or putty.exe (terminal) and pscp.exe (secure copy client)
- Windows Subsystem for Linux – Windows 10 Professional includes a Ubuntu-like bash shells
- See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
- We recommend the Ubuntu Linux distribution, but any Linux distribution will have an SSH client
- Cygwin – http://www.cygwin.com/
- A full Linux environment, including X-windows for running GUI programs remotely
- Complicated to install
- Putty – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
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Setting up your environment
Create some directories symbolic links
First create a few directories and links we will use (more on these later).
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Setup your login profile (~/.bashrc)
Now execute the lines below to set up a login script, called .bashrc
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