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Start a new SSH session to use your SSH locale.
+### Update the OS
+
+Update the Operating System with the latest packages
+
+ apt-get update -y
+ apt-get upgrade -y
+
+`sudo` is not installed on Debian by default. Install it along with `vim` (a useful text editor) and `git` (the version control tool we'll use to get a copy of the Alaveteli code).
+
+ apt-get install -y sudo vim git-core
+
### Prepare to install system dependencies using OS packages
These are packages that the software depends on: third-party software used to