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 In more recent releases of Microsoft Windows, there is a "bash shell" environment available, which is a version of Ubuntu Linux. An older solution to the Windows versus Unix question is a system called Cygwin, which comes in 32 bit and 64 bit systems. For Microsoft Windows installations, you will need to also add an X-windows server.Finally, users may configure their windows as dual-boot platforms, enjoying either a completely linux or a completely Microsoft environment. In more recent releases of Microsoft Windows, there is a "bash shell" environment available, which is a version of Ubuntu Linux. An older solution to the Windows versus Unix question is a system called Cygwin, which comes in 32 bit and 64 bit systems. For Microsoft Windows installations, you will need to also add an X-windows server.Finally, users may configure their windows as dual-boot platforms, enjoying either a completely linux or a completely Microsoft environment.
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 +More recently in Ubuntu 20.04 and later, the Linux environment for Window is called the Windows Linux Subsystem (WSL) and is an effective environment for installing Linux operating systems. Yet another tool is the Hyper-V virtual machine environment.
  
 Everything that follows in this discussion is executed on the "Unix command line". To do anything further requires that you  Everything that follows in this discussion is executed on the "Unix command line". To do anything further requires that you 
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 None of these is essential for running most of SU. None of these is essential for running most of SU.
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 +==== Installing SU on specific platforms ====
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 +=== Ubuntu 22.04  ===
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 +After you have installed Ubuntu 22.04, no matter what environment you are using for this, there are addition packages that must be installed.
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 +$ sudo apt-get install xorg
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 +$ sudo apt-get update
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 +$ sudo apt-get install xorg
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 +$ sudo apt-get install gcc
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 +$ sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
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 +$ sudo apt-get install libxt-dev
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 +$ sudo apt-get install libxext-dev
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 +$ sudo apt-get install make
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 +$ sudo apt-get install libmotif-dev
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 +$ sudo apt-get install libtirpc-dev
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 === Case study: Linux Mint notes contributed by a user, including comments on the sfinstall portion === === Case study: Linux Mint notes contributed by a user, including comments on the sfinstall portion ===
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