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Dear ASTRA Hands-On Training students,
In preparation for the training session next week, please download and install ASTRA on your laptop and confirm that you can run it and the other programs listed (generator, lineplot, &c.) ASTRA is free to download from the following url: https://www.desy.de/~mpyflo/
(The executables you’ll need are pre-compiled, so it should be easy to install on your machine.) There are also instructions in the attached PDF – please follow them to the end to add ASTRA, &c., to your path to make the tutorial go more smoothly.
A few important notes:
Please make sure you have a text editor on your computer (notepad, emacs, vim…) and that you are familiar with using it to create and edit text files.
Please also confirm that you can access the terminal (Linux/Mac users, or Cygwin on Windows) or Command Prompt (Windows) and familiarize yourself with some basic commands (changing directories, listing files, &c.). If you have not used command line tools before, or need a refresher, links are provided for both Linux/Mac and Windows.
ASTRA is available for 64-bit Linux, Mac and Windows, so you should be able to install it no matter what kind of computer you use. However, I encourage Windows users to install Cygwin (linked in the PDF) so that we can all use linux-style commands. You may use the native Windows Command Prompt if you wish, but instruction will default to linux-style commands during the tutorial.
If you have any trouble with installation, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail.
