2.4 Installing Rattle: Linux

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For installing Rattle on Ubuntu see Section ??. For installing Rattle on any GNU/Linux using Snap see Section 2.6.

Summary

For a generic Linux installation:

curl https://access.togaware.com/rattle-linux.zip -o rattle-linux.zip
unzip rattle-linux.zip -d rattle
./rattle/rattle

Details

To install Rattle on Linux we first need to ensure we have R and the recommended R pacakges installed as discussed in Section 2.1.

You are then ready to install the Rattle software. Begin by downloading the rattle-linux.zip. You can do this by tapping on that link or else from the terminal command line using curl as above.

Once downloaded extract the zip archive and from the extracted files you can directly run the rattle executable found in the rattle folder.

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