title: "Checking your environment"
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-First you should log into an Arvados VM instance ("Unix":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-unix.html#login or "Windows":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-windows.html#login) if you have not already done so.
+First, log into an Arvados VM instance (instructions for "Unix":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-unix.html#login or "Windows":{{site.baseurl}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access-windows.html#login) or install the Arvados "Command line SDK":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/cli/install.html and "Python SDK":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/python/sdk-python.html on your workstation.
-If @arv user current@ is able to access the API server, it will print out information about your account. Check that you are able to access the Arvados API server using the following command:
+Check that you are able to access the Arvados API server using @arv user current@. If it is able to access the API server, it will print out information about your account:
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<pre><code>$ <span class="userinput">arv user current</span>
bc. ARVADOS_API_HOST and ARVADOS_API_TOKEN need to be defined as environment variables
-Then follow the instructions for "getting an API token,":{{site.baseurl}}/user/reference/api-tokens.html and try @arv user current@ again.
+follow the instructions for "getting an API token,":{{site.baseurl}}/user/reference/api-tokens.html and try @arv user current@ again.