Install First time install on Windows

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Prerequisites:

Before installing DASHER, please install Docker CE. Please see Documentation for Docker CE:

Docker Installation Instructions

and if downloading DASHER code via Git, you'll need to install Git for Windows:

Download GIT

When installing GIT, ensure to leave the option to install environment variables selected.

You will also need an account (username and password) of a remote XNAT server to synchronise the data to. This should be provided to you before installation.

UPDATE August 2020: WSL2:

Windows have introduced WSL2 - Windows Subsystem for Linux - to run Linux Docker containers natively on Windows. WSL2 requires Windows build 2004 onward, and the latest Docker Desktop. If you do have WSL2 you do not need to change Docker settings as described below. You just need to ensure that WSL2 is enabled.

Change Docker Settings (Only change settings if not using WSL2) :

Ensure any drives you intend to use are shared with Docker:

Ensure containers have sufficient resources. DASHER requires 7GB ram and 4 CPUs. The disk image size is dependent on the amount of data expected to be stored:

Download DASHER:

Create a [install folder] for installing DASHER, e.g. C:\DASHER

Open the Command Prompt:

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cd to the [install folder] folder (if not already there), for example:

  cd  C:\DASHER\

then clone the repository

  git clone https://gitlab.com/KCL-BMEIS/Data-Analytics/data_uploader.git

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