Before you start

Using the command line

BiblioPixel is a command line program: you type commands into a terminal window and get text responses. You don’t have to be an expert on the command line: you just need to be comfortable with changing directories, entering commands and pressing return.

In this documentation, command lines are indentified with the dollar sign character $ - don’t type the $ yourself when entering command lines. Try it now - open a terminal window and type:

$ echo hello-world

This should print out the string hello-world on your terminal.

Using a text editor

BiblioPixel lighting Projects are text files, so you’ll need a text editor to prepare your Projects - Microsoft Word won’t work.

Almost every computer comes with some sort of simple free text editor:

• Notepad on Windows
• Text on the Macintosh
• You can download vi or emacs for free on Linux, Rasbperry Pi, Mac, Windows and almost all other platforms

A popular commercial text editor named SublimeText also works on almost all platforms.

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  density: 100