Step-by-Step Software Installation and Use

Installing the Required Software

As a first step you need to install the following tools on your system

Docker

Download Docker

Windows

Installation for Windows can be difficult since WSL 2 is required for the current version of Docker Desktop, so it is important to begin this process well before the short-course.

To manually update WSL 2:

• Open a terminal or Powershell.

• Update WSL wsl --update

• Install WSL wsl --install     Note: The process will take awhile and prompt you for an account creation

• Verify install using wsl --list. You should see something like “Ubuntu”.

• Set default WSL wsl --set-default-version 2

See also

• WSL Installation

• WSL Troublshooting Guide

PodMan

Download Podman

ParaView

Download Paraview

Visit

Download Visit

git (so you can clone this repo)

• Mac OSX: git is included in the command line tools, installed via xcode-select --install, or in XCode itself.

• Linux: git is included as a standard package under most package managers, e.g. sudo apt-get install git.

• Windows: See Git Downloads. Note that the GitHub Desktop is also an option for Windows users and provides a GUI.