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Clarified software installation instructions #369

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# Software

For this course you will need the UNIX shell, plus [SQLite3](https://www.sqlite.org/) or
For this course you will need the UNIX shell (described in the [UNIX Shell lesson](https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/#install-software)), plus [SQLite3](https://www.sqlite.org/) or
[DB Browser for SQLite](https://sqlitebrowser.org/).

If you are running **macOS** you should already have SQLite installed. You can run `sqlite3 --version`
Expand All @@ -15,10 +15,8 @@ If you are running **Linux**, you may already have SQLite3 installed, please use
`which sqlite3` to see the path of the program, otherwise you should be able to get it
from your package manager (on Debian/Ubuntu, you can use the command `apt install sqlite3`).

If you are running **Windows**, run installers as administrator.
Additionally, make sure you select the right installer version for your system.
We recommend that you use [git for Windows](https://gitforwindows.org/).
This is described in the [UNIX Shell lesson](https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/setup.html).
If you are running **Windows**, download installers and run them as administrator.
Make sure you select the right installer version for your system.
If the installer asks to add the path to the environment variables, check yes, otherwise you have to manually add the path of the executable to the `PATH` environmental variables.
This path informs the system where to find the executable program.

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