Notes for Linux and WSL users

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Most Linux distributions provide tools for installing software system-wide. For example, Debian and Debian-based distributions (such as Ubuntu and Mint) use the apt command-line tool. While other Linux distributions use different tools, we will focus here on apt.

After a fresh installation of Ubuntu (such as with WSL), it is important to upgrade the system packages by running the following commands in a terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Additional packages can then be installed using commands that begin with sudo apt install. For example, we recommend installing the curl package (which is often used in tutorials to download files from the web and is not included by default) with:

sudo apt install curl

No permission to run sudo apt?

Running sudo apt commands requires administrative permissions. If you are unable to execute these commands, please ask your administrator to assist with this part Preliminaries.

In summary, we recommend having the following Debian/Ubuntu packages installed:

sudo apt install curl python3-dev python3-venv git meld