If you are using Windows, you should be able to use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
First, in the box in the lower right corner type "cmd" to get a command shell. Note that the shell you get will NOT be bash.
At the prompt, run the command
wsl--set-default-version 2
Note that if WSL is not installed, you can install it in the Microsoft Store.
Next run these two commands
wsl --update
wsl --shutdown
Finall run
wsl
and you should get a "Linux-looking" command prompt. This would give you a good way to use some Linux commands, but we need a bit more than that. So go ahead and quit (exit or control-d)
Next to this link to install Ubuntu 22.04 for WSL
When you first run Ubuntu (you should get prompted to open it once it is installed), it will ask you for a username and password---you can pick any username and password you want.
If you get an error about how it can't work with compression/encryption, then open your file explorer and go to
Users\(your name)\AppData\Local\Packages
Find the directory whose name starts with CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu.22.04LTS (mine was called CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubunut22.04LTS_79rhkp1fndgsc).
Right click it, then choose "Properties". Then press the "Advanced" button. There should be a checkbox near the bottom for "Compress contents to save disk space". Uncheck that and press OK, then try opening Ubuntu again.
In the future, you can type "Ubuntu" into the search box in the lower left.
The first two things you should do are
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
If you get asked for a password, it is the one you just selected when you first setup Ubuntu.
You should now be ready to git clone https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/adh39/ece651-dev-setup.git
and run
./packages-linux.sh
(answer N to the first question)
and then
./emacs-config.sh
At this point you should be pretty much good to go. One quick note: When I tried this out, I had to do M-x lsp-workspace-restart after creating my first Java file to get things working. I don't know why.
You may wish to install evince
sudo apt install evince
so that you can use it to open pdfs, e.g.
cd doc
evince walkthrough.pdf &