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180 180  (% class="box warningmessage" %)
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182 182  **Note:**
183 -\\I find that I receive a "no module named nest" error, when trying the above 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.
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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186 186  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.
187 187  
188 -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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194 194  **Slide** recap of learning objectives