nano ~/.bashrc problems while trying to download kallisto | bustools

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Some background information:

I am on windows using ubuntu, trying to download kallisto | bustools

Attached is the introductory video made by their team (although they used a MacBook)

kallisto | bustools: Installation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thvtp7Ik6ts

I am a high school student, so relatively new to coding/programming (not even sure if that's what I'm doing right now)

My question is this: Once the guy in the video gets to the part where he types in nano ~/.bashrc I try doing the same thing but get this big page giving me a weird message (attached below, with an option for 117 more lines). The thing they got is shown at the 3:00 minute mark in his youtube video.

Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks!

The 'big page':

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
    i) ;;
      *) return;;
esac
don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
See bash(1) for more options
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000
check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will

macOS's default .bashrc is going to be different from Ubuntu's default bashrc. If you have trouble using nano as the editor, use gedit instead. — muru, Jul 20 '20 at 01:49
@muru alright, thank you! Would that compromise anything with the program? I tried doing gedit ~/.bashrc but got an "unable to init server...." message. Is there some sort of alternative? — omega, Jul 20 '20 at 02:13
Oh, you're on WSL. In that case, best learn how to use nano: https://askubuntu.com/q/54221/158442. As for .bashrc, just out your additions at the end of the file. If they ask you to change a line instead, post the suggested changes in the question and we can help you adapt them to Ubuntu's bashrc — muru, Jul 20 '20 at 02:17

nano ~/.bashrc problems while trying to download kallisto | bustools

If not running interactively, don't do anything

don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.

See bash(1) for more options

append to the history file, don't overwrite it

for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)

check the window size after each command and, if necessary,

update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.

If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will

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