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116 116  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.
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120 -**Screencast** - file explorer
121 -\\(% style="color:#000000" %)<< show directory contents lib/python3.9/site-packages >>
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124 124  To confirm that we have properly installed Brian2 on our computer, we can test as follows:
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128 128  **Screencast** - terminal
129 129  \\(% style="color:#000000" %)python
130 130  \\import brian2
131 -\\exit()
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134 -If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing Brian2.
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137 -We shall now move on to install the NEST simulator. Unlike Brian2, 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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139 -We first install the NEST module. Version 2.20 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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143 -**Screencast** - terminal
144 -\\(% style="color:#000000" %)sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nest-simulator/nest
145 -sudo apt-get update
146 -\\sudo apt-get install nest
131 +**Screencast** - file explorer
132 +\\(% style="color:#000000" %)<< show directory contents lib/python3.9/site-packages >>
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149 -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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155 155  **Slide** recap of learning objectives