View source for Installing Software to a UNIX Server

# Install [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/  Putty] if using windows or openSSH if using OSX or Linux (usually already installed)
# Log into the server with your ssh client, username and password 
# Make your own binary directory in the HOME folder within the root directory and add it to your path:
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mkdir $HOME/bin
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
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Make a source code directory to download software into:
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mkdir $HOME/SRC
cd $HOME/SRC
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Download and extract software into the source code directory using [http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html wget] to download and [http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?tar tar] to extract
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<li>Install software with '''make''' if a c-program, check the installation instructions for the program.</li>
<li>Copy the relevant binaries into $HOME/bin.</li>
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