Software Installations on Windows

This page contains instructions for installing Anaconda/Bioconda on Windows, Ubuntu on Windows, Mac, a Lawrence account, and Jetstream
Warning: this site is under construction.  The information may be incomplete.
Anaconda on Windows
To download Anaconda, go to the distribution website: https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/.
Scroll down to the download section.  Select "Windows", then select "Download".
Follow the installation wizard.
The Users Guide should pop up (this webpage).
To open Anaconda, go to the start menu and expand the Anaconda3 folder.
Select "Anaconda Navigator".
Anaconda on Ubuntu on Windows
Installing Ubuntu on Windows
Ubuntu for Windows can be downloaded from the Microsoft store.  
Search for "ubuntu".
Select the app.
Click "Get", then "Install".
Search for "Ubuntu" and select the app.
The window will look like this:
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Installing Anaconda on Ubuntu on Windows
First, open Ubuntu for Windows (see above) and check to ensure that conda is not already installed. 
user@NI0000:~$ which conda
If it has been, a file path will show up under the command, if not, the next line will be a prompt.
Download the installer
user@NI0000:~$ wget --quiet --no-check-certificate https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64
.sh
user@NI0000:~$ ls
Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
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Run the installer
user@NI0000:~$ bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -b -p $HOME/anaconda3
PREFIX=/home/adison/anaconda3
Unpacking payload ...
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  zstd               pkgs/main/linux-64::zstd-1.3.7-h0b5b093_0
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Preparing transaction: done
Executing transaction: done
installation finished.
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user@NI0000:~$
Run an update:
user@NI0000:~$ $HOME/anaconda3/bin/conda update conda -y
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: done
 ...
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Executing transaction: done
user@NI0000:~$
Then install Anaconda
user@NI0000:~$ $HOME/anaconda3/bin/conda install anaconda -y
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: done
 
## Package Plan ##
...
Verifying transaction: done
Executing transaction: / b'Enabling notebook extension jupyter-js-widgets/extension...\n      - Validating: \x1b[32mOK\x1b[0m\n'                                                                                                              done
user@NI0000:~$
Initialize
user@NI0000:~$ $HOME/anaconda3/bin/conda init
no change     /home/user/anaconda3/condabin/conda
...
no change     /home/user/anaconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.csh
modified      /home/user/.bashrc
 
==> For changes to take effect, close and re-open your current shell. <==
 
user@NI0000:~$
Close and re-open your Ubuntu command line.
Bioconda on Windows on Ubuntu
After running the installation of Anaconda on Ubuntu on Windows (see above), add bioconda:
user@NI0000:~$ conda config --add channels bioconda
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