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Installation Guide

These pages should help you to get started setting up the computing environment on your machine ready for the course "Social Media and Web Analytics" at the University of Tilburg in Spring 2021.

Please attempt to install necessary software and packages prior to the beginning of the course.

Summary

  • If everything goes smoothly, you should be able to complete the installation in one sitting which should take about 1 hour.
  • Please follow the steps one-by-one in the order they appear on the side bar and do not deviate from them, unless you really know what you are doing.
  • If you find any outdated links or unclear descriptions, email us at tisem.social.media@gmail.com so that we can update the instructions or clarify as needed.
  • Where necessary, we have provided instructions for Mac, Windows and Linux machines.

the $ sign

In the pages that follow you will often see the following:

$ someCommand

that ask you to enter into a terminal. When you copy this command, do not include the $ sign.