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Latest revision as of 11:31, 21 July 2012

  1. Install Putty if using windows or openSSH if using OSX or Linux (usually already installed)
  2. Log into the server with your ssh client, username and password
  3. Make your own binary directory in the HOME folder within the root directory and add it to your path:
mkdir $HOME/bin
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
  1. Make a source code directory to download software into: 
mkdir $HOME/SRC
cd $HOME/SRC
  1. Download and extract software into the source code directory using wget to download and tar to extract
  2. Install software with make if a c-program, check the installation instructions for the program.
  3. Copy the relevant binaries into $HOME/bin.
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