/mycroft workon mycroft`
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### Author:  [@ryanleesipes](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ryanleesipes)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/8 "2016-05-18T04:15:17Z")
Oh yes, I’ve ran into this every time I have set stuff up. That is going into the README.
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### Author:  [@betzelel](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/betzelel)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/9 "2016-05-18T05:11:18Z")
Hey thanks! I ran into that probem too. I have been too busy lately to get a chance to trouble shoot it. That was the first issue I ran into.
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### Author:  [@betzelel](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/betzelel)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/10 "2016-05-18T05:17:07Z")
I had a question, after compilation and set up how do we interface with the AI? Do we start with the terminal badh shell? Or does it automaticly respond to voice commands? If I were to put in the IP of my virtual machine (ubuntu) into a web browser, would I bee able to go to a simple web page to login and setup / configure the system? Do you have any videos of how you bring up the servies and interface while you are testing your system?
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### Author:  [@aatchison](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/aatchison)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/11 "2016-05-18T17:53:55Z")
Open 3 terminals in the Mycroft checkout dir:
Terminal 1
./start.sh service
Terminal 2
./start.sh skills
Terminal 3
./start.sh voice
If you want them to background in one terminal use &;
./start.sh service &
Expect this to get better 😉
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### Author:  [@betzelel](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/betzelel)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/12 "2016-05-18T18:42:28Z")
after those services are started, can you enter questions to it via text in a bash shell? or does it have to be through voice activation only?
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### Author:  [@DarkSide](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/DarkSide)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/13 "2016-05-19T07:27:01Z")
@aatchison That’s exactly what I did and my first request was “Mycroft, tell me a joke”. I was not disappointed. 😄
It made me laugh 😁
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### Author:  [@DarkSide](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/DarkSide)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/14 "2016-05-19T07:29:18Z")
Good question, I also wander how to interact with _Skills_ without using the voice ?
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### Author:  [@aatchison](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/aatchison)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/15 "2016-05-20T15:20:43Z")
There is also:
./start.sh cli --quiet
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### Author:  [@betzelel](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/betzelel)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/16 "2016-05-20T16:25:21Z")
ok cool thanks, i will have to check that out once i get some more time on my hands.
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### Author:  [@NeoplasmSix](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/NeoplasmSix)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/17 "2016-05-23T14:54:31Z")
Sorry to appear absolutely clueless (which I am) but what is meant by the Mycroft ‘checkout’ directory?
😕
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### Author:  [@Wolfgange](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Wolfgange)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/18 "2016-05-23T15:12:26Z")
The checkout directory is just the folder where you downloaded mycroft-core. 🙂
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### Author:  [@NeoplasmSix](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/NeoplasmSix)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/19 "2016-05-23T15:14:30Z")
ah, thanks, makes sense I guess cheers!
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### Author:  [@starlifterdigi](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/starlifterdigi)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/getting-started-in-ubuntu-development-environment/602/20 "2016-05-23T19:32:57Z")
I resolved this with help from the Slack channel. I had setup the environment as sudo. I re-ran dev\_setup.sh as my normal user and this fixed everything.
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