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148 148  If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing Brian 2.
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150 -We shall now move on to install the NEST simulator. Unlike Brian 2, NEST is not a Python package and therefore it cannot be installed via the 'pip' command.
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152 -At the time of creating this tutorial, the lastest version of NEST is v3.1. This is currently supported by PyNN v0.10, and it is likely that other versions of NEST could potentially be incompatible with this version of PyNN. The installation is done by first adding the PPA repository for NEST and updating apt, followed by the installation of NEST itself.
151 +We shall now move on to install the NEST simulator. Unlike Brian 2, NEST is not a Python package and therefore its installation is a bit more involved. We shall install the NEST module along with PyNEST, which is a Python interface for controlling the NEST kernel.
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153 +We first install the NEST module. At the time of creating this tutorial, the lastest version of NEST is 3.1. This is supported by  is currently supported by PyNN, and it is likely that other versions of NEST might have issues when used with the current version of PyNN. The installation is done by first adding the PPA repository for NEST and updating apt, followed by the installation of NEST itself.
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156 156  **Screencast** - terminal
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159 159  \\sudo apt-get install nest
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162 -This installs the NEST module along with PyNEST, which is a Python interface for controlling the NEST kernel. This allows us to use NEST via Python. To confirm that we have properly installed Brian 2 on our computer, we can test as follows:
163 +At this point, we have installed the NEST module, but it is still not usable via Python. To do so, we next install PyNEST.
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166 -**Screencast** - terminal
167 -\\(% style="color:#000000" %)python3
168 -\\import nest
169 -\\exit()
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172 -If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing NEST simulator.
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174 -We next move on to the third simulation, NEURON. The installation for NEURON is a bit more involved.
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180 180  **Slide** recap of learning objectives