Getting Started with Virtual STCE Teaching Machine

  1. Make sure that you have approx. 10GB of disc space available.
  2. Install and start VirtualBox (see www.virtualbox.org for guidance).
  3. Download the compressed VirtualBox image (stce-teaching.zip).
    This may take a while (due to size of 3.1GB) depending on your Internet connection.
  4. Unpack to get the two files stce-teaching.vbox and stce-teaching.vdi.
  5. Open the file stce-teaching.vbox with VirtualBox (double-click).
  6. Start the virtual machine "stce-teaching".
    • Your user name is "stce", so is your password.
    • Click on the "Terminal Emulator" icon to open a Linux shell.
    • Type "cd ../$(COURSE)" at the command line, where $(COUSRE) corresponds to the name of your course.
    • Type ". set_BASE_DIR.sh" (mind the dot) at the command line.
    • Type "make check" at the command line. Numerous programs
      should be built and run without errors. This may take several minutes. 
    • Type "make clean" to remove all files generated by the build process.
    • Click on the "Web Browser" icon to run the chromium Web browser.
      Open, for example, this page to validate Internet access.
    • Familiarize with a text editor of your choice (gedit, nano, vi are preinstalled).
      You will need one of them to complete the exercises during the course.
    • Optionally, you may want to take a look at some basic Linux commands, e.g. here.
  7. Any problems? Contact: info@stce.rwth-aachen.de