Changes for page 02. Installing PyNN - Linux
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... ... @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ 56 56 **Slide** listing prerequisites 57 57 ))) 58 58 59 -I shall be demonstrating the installation on a computer with Ubuntu 18.04 OS installed. The steps are likely to remain very similar for other versions of Ubuntu OS, and also not expected to vary significantly for other Linux distributions. In the latter case, you will find on the Internet about how to carry out the equivalent of the tasks demonstrated here using Ubuntu OS. Also, the tutorial will focus only on Python 3, as Python 2 has now been deprecated. It is recommended to use Python version 3.6 or higher. I would be using Python 3.9.7 in this tutorial.59 +I shall be demonstrating the installation on a computer with Ubuntu 20.04 OS installed. The steps are likely to remain very similar for other versions of Ubuntu OS, and also not expected to vary significantly for other Linux distributions. In the latter case, you will find on the Internet about how to carry out the equivalent of the tasks demonstrated here using Ubuntu OS. Also, the tutorial will focus only on Python 3, as Python 2 has now been deprecated. It is recommended to use Python version 3.6 or higher. I would be using Python 3.9.7 in this tutorial. 60 60 61 61 (% class="box infomessage" %) 62 62 ((( ... ... @@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ 77 77 78 78 Next we shall create a virtual environment within this directory. Python 3 provides intrinsic support for creating virtual environments. Since Python 3.6, the recommended method of creating a new virtual environment is as follows: 79 79 80 +(% class="box errormessage" %) 81 +((( 82 +**Note:** 83 +For older versions of Python 3, you might require to manually install `python3-venv` package before being able to run the below command. To install, run: 84 +\\sudo apt-get install python3-venv 85 +\\More recent versions of Python 3 (e.g. v3.9) already have this pre-installed. 86 +))) 87 + 80 80 (% class="box infomessage" %) 81 81 ((( 82 82 **Screencast** - terminal ... ... @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ 113 113 \\(% style="color:#000000" %)pip install brian2 114 114 ))) 115 115 116 -This will install Brian2, along with all its dependencies such as 'cython', 'numpy', etc. We can now go back into our virtual environment's 'site-packages' directory to see how it is now populated with all these packages. 124 +This will install Brian2, along with all its dependencies such as 'cython', 'numpy', etc. We can now go back into our virtual environment's 'site-packages' directory to see how it is now populated with all these packages. 117 117 118 118 (% class="box infomessage" %) 119 119 (((