Necessary packages
There are several packages that we will need for this training.
MacOS
All you need to do is to install these packages via Homebrew. Homebrew is a package manager that helps install missing softwares on MacOs. The command line below installs Homebrek, zsh, wget, vim and git.
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew update
brew install wget zsh vim git
Ubuntu
On Ubuntu, your installs can be made this way:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y make git zsh curl vim wget xclip
Windows
Finally, on Windows, go to Git’s website and download git. You can follow this tutorial.
Install Python
We then must install Python. There are many ways to install Python:
- from Python’s website
- from Anaconda’s website
Anaconda is a Python distribution which allows you to install Python as well as 400 core packages for data manipulation, visualization and machine learning.
Simply follow the installation guide here.
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