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123	123	\\You might be required to run the above command every time you open a new terminal window. Do verify that the terminal command prompt indicates the name of your virtual environment to confirm that you have indeed activated it.
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126		-Now that we have our project's virtual environment setup, we are now ready to install PyNN and other simulators. In general, it is advisable to install the various simulators (especially NEURON and NEST) prior to installing PyNN, because PyNN will then auto compile NEURON's NMODL fles and NEST's extensions during installation. Alternatively, this would need to be done manually as described on the PyNN website. In this tutorial, we will adopt the easier approach and begin by installing the simulators. For the purposes of this tutorial, we shall demonstrate the installation of Brian2, NEURON and NEST simulators.
	126	+Now that we have our project's virtual environment setup, we are now ready to install PyNN and other simulators. In general, it is advisable to install the various simulators (especially NEURON and NEST) prior to installing PyNN, because PyNN will then auto compile NEURON's NMODL fles and NEST's extensions during installation. In this tutorial, we will adopt this approach and begin by installing the simulators. For the purposes of this tutorial, we shall demonstrate the installation of Brian2, NEURON and NEST simulators.
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	130	+**Note:**
	131	+\\If you have previously already installed NEURON or NEST on your system and are installing PyNN now, then you would require to compile NEURON's NMODL fles and NEST's extensions manually. For more instructions on this, take a look at:
	132	+[[(% style="color:#000000" %)http:~~/~~/neuralensemble.org/docs/PyNN/installation.html>>http://neuralensemble.org/docs/PyNN/installation.html]]
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128	128	We start here with the installation of Brian 2. Brian 2 can be installed simply using the pip command.
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195	195	\\I find that I receive a "no module named nest" error, when trying this right after installing NEST. But it succeeds after a restart. So if you do observe an error, close all programs and restart your computer, and try again. This time it should execute as expected.
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198		-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.
	205	+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 via Python.
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200	200	We next move on to the third simulator, NEURON. The installation for NEURON used to be more involved previously, but can now be easily completed using the 'pip' command:
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	233	+If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing NEURON simulator, and are able to load it via Python.
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	235	+Now that we have installed all the simulators we intend to use, we move on to installing PyNN itself. As PyNN is a Python package, we can install it easily using the 'pip' command:
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	239	+**Screencast** - terminal
	240	+\\(% style="color:#000000" %)pip install pyNN
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	243	+To verify that PyNN has been successfully installed on our system, and that it is indeed able to communicate with the other simulators that we installed earlier, we can try running:
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	247	+**Screencast** - terminal
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	249	+(% style="color:#000000" %)python
	250	+\\import pyNN.brian2 as sim
	251	+
	252	+(% style="color:#000000" %)sim.setup()
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	254	+(% style="color:#000000" %)sim.end()
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	257	+This confirms that PyNN has been properly setup, and also that is able to employ Brian 2. To verify similary test that PyNN is also able to communicate with NEURON and NEST simulators:
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	261	+**Screencast** - terminal
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	263	+(% style="color:#000000" %)python
	264	+\\import pyNN.nest as sim
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	266	+(% style="color:#000000" %)sim.setup()
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	268	+(% style="color:#000000" %)sim.end()
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	272	+(% style="color:#000000" %)import pyNN.neuron as sim
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	274	+(% style="color:#000000" %)sim.setup()
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	276	+(% style="color:#000000" %)sim.end()
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	279	+A
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230	230	**Slide** recap of learning objectives