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Last modified by adavison on 2022/10/04 13:53
From version 54.1
edited by shailesh
on 2022/01/31 15:52
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To version 60.1
edited by adavison
on 2022/10/04 13:53
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1 1  == Learning objectives ==
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3 3  In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PyNN, together with the Brian 2, NEST and NEURON simulators, on Linux.
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7 -Note: There will be a separate tutorial for each environment.
12 +Note: We are preparing tutorials for Windows and Mac OS
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10 10  == Audience ==
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69 69  cd pynn_project
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72 -Next, we will create a virtual environment within this directory. Python 3 provides support for creating virtual environments. Since Python 3.6, the recommended method for creating a new virtual environment is as follows.
77 +Next, we will create a virtual environment within this directory. Python 3 provides support for creating virtual environments. To use this, we first install the package named 'python3-venv':
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81 +**Screencast** - terminal
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79 -For older versions of Python 3, you might be required to manually install `python3-venv` package before being able to run the below command. To install, run:
80 -\\sudo apt-get install python3-venv
81 -\\More recent versions of Python 3 (e.g., v3.9) already have this pre-installed.
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84 +sudo apt-get install python3-venv
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87 +And once this is installed, we can create a new virtual environment by typing 'python3', '-m venv' to indicate the name module of the module we just installed, followed by the name we wish to assign to our virtual environment. Here, we have set this to 'pynn_env'.
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86 86  **Screencast** - terminal
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94 +python3 -m venv pynn_env
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