How To

Packages

For most programming assignments, I will give you starter code and other stuff using a tar file.

Suppose I give you a link like this: bases-and-bits-package.tar. You will need to do two things to get started:

• Move a copy of this tar file to your account on mantis.mathcs.carleton.edu
• Extract the contents of the tar file

Getting the tar file to mantis

Option 1: point and click

• download the tar file from the browser to your own computer like you would download any document: click on the link (or right-click and select "Download")
• in another tab, login to JupyterHub, and from there to mantis
• drag-and-drop the tar file onto mantis in the JupyterHub interface

Option 2: old-school

• copy the link to the tar file (e.g., right-click on the link and select "copy link")
• in a terminal on JupyterHub, login to mantis
• cd to your working directory for this class
• wget [pasted link]

Extracting the tar file

• get a terminal logged into mantis
• cd to your working directory
• ls to make sure your tar file is in this directory
• tar xvf bases-and-bits-package.tar
• ls again to see that there's now a bases-and-bits-package folder containing the starter code, etc.