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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

ferret

ifort

Updating Linux

This is detailed in… the Update section :-)





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