- Hi there.
Welcome to the NC State Biotechnology program's
first YouTube video.
My name's Riley and today,
I'm going to show you how to install QIIME
using VirtualBox on your computer.
If you're a Mac user, this is not the video for you.
It turns out you can install it directly onto your computer
but if you have Linux
or a PC like a Windows computer like I do,
then you're not going to want to try
and install it directly onto your computer.
You're going to want to use something called VirtualBox.
If you're confused, if this is the video for you,
I would suggest you go to the QIIME website.
QIIME, by the way, stands for
Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology
'cause they had to make it a cute word, I think.
You're going to want to go to the QIIME website.
Go to this section called Installing QIME,
and go to the QIIME installation guide.
Now this is where it tells you which version to use.
Unless you're a big computer nerd,
I would suggest not trying to do it natively,
and that's what they suggest too.
It's really complicated.
I would say, probably if you have a Mac,
you can download it from this link here.
I'm not going to be showing you that
'cause I don't have a Mac.
But what I'm going to be doing
and what this tutorial is about
is QIIME VirtualBox installation.
So, here we are, at the instructions.
The very first thing to do is to download VirtualBox.
Basically, VirtualBox is a computer inside of your computer.
It's different from a partition, if you're wondering.
It's actually like a software on its own.
So, I'm going to download
VirtualBox for Windows
'cause that's what I have.
I'm going to run it.
It should take a little bit for this.
Not too, too long though,
depending on your Internet connection.
So I skipped ahead a little bit
and let it finish downloading.
It's done now and I have it saved to my desktop.
So I'm going up here and this isn't VirtualBox.
This is the installer.
I'm going to double-click on it
and I'm going to go through this setup wizard.
If you've ever installed anything before,
this should be pretty straightforward for you.
In case it's not, I'll do it step-by-step.
If you want a shortcut to VirtualBox
on your desktop or on your launch bar
depending on what version of Windows you have,
you can uncheck these boxes.
This is just preferences.
It's not going to do anything.
I would suggest having this third box checked.
I'm not going to check this middle box 'cause honestly,
my launch bar is already cluttered.
So right here, it's warning us that during the installation,
it might take us off the Internet.
That's not a problem for me.
If you personally have skipped ahead
and are already downloading
the actual QIIME hard drive file,
then I would suggest letting that finish,
and then coming back to this,
and finishing and installing VirtualBox,
just because
this will interrupt your Internet connection
and you don't want to have something half-downloaded
and then have to start all over again
once VirtualBox is done its thing.
So I'm going to press Yes and install.
And this takes a little bit.
I think I might skip forward
until something interesting happens.
Basically, as it's installing,
a lot of little popups come up.
You press OK.
You press Continue.
It's all pretty straightforward.
And then this box comes up.
And then that's pretty much it for installing VirtualBox.
You can press finish.
I said OK and this popped up.
Now this is what VirtualBox looks like.
It's a pretty small window.
It doesn't really look very interesting yet
but that's because we haven't created
any machines on it yet.
This has been a tutorial on installing VirtualBox.
In the next video, I'm going to show you
how to download QIIME and get it set up
inside of this software, so keep an eye out for that,
if that's what you're trying to do.
And thanks.