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20 20  == Prerequisites ==
21 21  
22 -To follow this tutorial, you will need a computer with [Linux/Mac OS/Windows] and a good network connection. You will need to know how to open the terminal application for your operating system.
22 +To follow this tutorial, you will need a computer with Linux and a good network connection. You will need to know how to open the terminal application for your operating system.
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28 -To follow this tutorial, you will need an EBRAINS account. You should know how to create and use Jupyter notebooks in the EBRAINS Jupyter Lab.
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30 30  == Format ==
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32 -These tutorials will be screencasts, in which the presenter runs commands in a terminal (or in a Jupyer notebook), and the viewer is expected to follow along. The intended duration is 10 minutes. For the Jupyter version of the tutorial, the final notebook will also be made available.
26 +These tutorials will be screencasts, in which the presenter runs commands in a terminal, and the viewer is expected to follow along. The intended duration is 10-15 minutes.
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34 34  == Script ==
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159 159  \\sudo apt-get install nest
160 160  )))
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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:
156 +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 NEST on our computer, we can test as follows:
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164 164  (% class="box infomessage" %)
165 165  (((
166 166  **Screencast** - terminal
161 +\\(% style="color:#000000" %)nest
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164 +This will display the NEST banner, which mentions the version amongst other info. Here, as we can see, we have now installed NEST v3.1 on our system. Let us next verify that this is indeed accessible via Python.
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166 +(% class="box infomessage" %)
167 +(((
168 +**Screencast** - terminal
167 167  \\(% style="color:#000000" %)python3
168 168  \\import nest
169 169  \\exit()
170 170  )))
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172 -If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing NEST simulator.
174 +If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing NEST simulator, and are able to load it on Python.
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174 174  We next move on to the third simulation, NEURON. The installation for NEURON is a bit more involved.
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