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Installing Scala

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Installing Scala

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- [Instructor] Scala's freely available for downloading, at scala-lang.org. Now I have to open the browser and navigate it to that website, and I've selected download, and I'm simply going to click and download Scala. This download package is a compressed file. So, it's done downloading, I'm going to switch over to a terminal window, and I'm going to change my default directory to where I downloaded the Scala file. Now the commands I'm going to execute will work on a Mac or Linux. Now similar steps will work in Windows environment, but the commands and the step tools will be slightly different. So, the first thing I want to do, is I just want to list the download. So I have a tar file, that means that I'm going to use a tar command to uncompress, and now what that does is creates a folder for me. I'm going to move that folder from my downloads directory, and I'm going to put that in user local. Now I'm going to cd over to user local. I want to be able to refer to this directory as…

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