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	180	+(% class="box warningmessage" %)
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	182	+**Note:**
	183	+\\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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180	180	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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182		-We next move on to the third simulation, NEURON. The installation for NEURON is a bit more involved.
	188	+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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	192	+**Screencast** - terminal
	193	+\\(% style="color:#000000" %)pip install neuron
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	196	+This installs the NEURON simulator on your system. To confirm that we have properly installed NEURON, we can test as follows:
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	200	+**Screencast** - terminal
	201	+\\(% style="color:#000000" %)nrngui
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	204	+This will display the NEURON banner, which mentions the version amongst other info. Here, as we can see, we have now installed NEURON v8.0.0 on our system. Let us next verify that this is indeed accessible via Python.
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	208	+**Screencast** - terminal
	209	+\\(% style="color:#000000" %)python3
	210	+\\from neuron import h
	211	+\\exit()
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188	188	**Slide** recap of learning objectives