Using the VirtualBox Linux guest

The Linux guest is just a regular Linux machine! We have detailed below only a few technical details

Becoming root

Do not use the root account or privileges if you don't really know what you are doing!

Depending on what you need to do:

run a single command with the root access rights
sudo command

become root in a terminal
sudo su -

use the root password when a program asks for it. Be sure the programs has legitimate reasons to ask for the root password!

login as root

Creating a new account

Installing new programs with yum

Note: you have to be root to install a program on the command line with yum!

nco operators

nco web site: http://nco.sf.net

At LSCE: yum install nco

Outside LSCE: yum –disablerepo lsce install nco

Installing programs with the Graphical User Interface

Installing other useful (for LSCE) programs

cdo

Web site: https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo

ferret

ifort

Updating Linux

This is detailed in… the Update section

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