updated: 2025-10

# Software tools required for The Carpentries workshops:

### Official Carpentries workshop installation instructions:

https://carpentries.github.io/workshop-template/install_instructions

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## Tidy Data Workshop:
* **Any spreadsheet application is required.**
* Excel, Google Sheets, Open Offce, etc.

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## Unix Shell and Git Workshop:
### Git for Windows - Windows
* Windows: https://gitforwindows.org
* download the .exe file for your OS

**MacOS** users will use the built-in Terminal application
**required for Unix Shell and Git lesson**

**Recommended Text editors to use:**
### Nano
* Part of Git for Windows isntaller (called GitBash)

* MacOS Terminal

### Notepad++ (optional text editor)
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
* Download latest version Notepad++

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## Introduction to Python Workshop:
### Conda-Forge

* Open https://conda-forge.org/download/ with your web browser.
* Download the Miniforge for Windows installer for your OS

**Unix-like platforms (Mac OS & Linux)**
* Download the installer and run

bash Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh

**Windows**
* Download and execute the Windows installer.

please make sure you install a Python version >= 3.9 (e.g. 3.11 is fine, 3.6 is not).

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## Introduction to R Workshop:

**Install both R and RStudio**
### Base R
https://cran.r-project.org
* Download and install for Windows
* Download and install for MacOS
* Required installation for RStudio

### RStudio
https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download
* WindowsOS - Download Windows Vist/7/8/10 link
* MacOS - Download MacOSX 10.6+ (64-bit)
* RStudio Cloud: https://rstudio.cloud - for use if there are problems during the workshop

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## Introduction to OpenRefine:
## OpenRefine
http://openrefine.org/download.html
* Download and Install OpenRefine latest Version
* Windows kit zip file for Windows
* Mac kit for MacOS

**Data Download:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LibraryCarpentry/lc-open-refine/gh-pages/data/doaj-article-sample.csv
* right click and "save as" .csv file

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## Introduction to SQL:
### DB Browser for SQLlite
https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/
* Windows install 64-bit version
* Mac Download latest version

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**For non-Carpentries PostgreSQL workshops:**

pgAdmin - https://www.pgadmin.org/download/

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# Addtional installation notes:
## Microsoft One Drive or iCloud usage

**If you have a One Drive account or iCloud account connected to your computer, you might have two Desktop folders!**

* One is the Desktop folder on your local machine, and the other is the Desktop folder in the cloud.

This causes a lot of confusion because your computer displays the contents of both folders on your desktop.

You can figure out where your stuff actually is by opening **`Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows)`** and looking inside the individual folders.

* Try to put the “shell-lesson-data” folder in your *local* Desktop.