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 ## Getting set up
 
 Detailed instructions for setting up a development environment for the course are given in [this file](notes/environment-set-up.md). Students doing the course will spend part of the first lab getting their own environment set up.
+
+## Frequent Issues/Solutions
+
+Don’t forget that from your /mlpractica/l folder you should first do 
+```
+git status #to check whether there are any changes in your local branch. If there are, you need to do: 
+git add “path /to/file”
+git commit -m “some message”
+```
+
+Only if this is OK, you can run 
+```
+git checkout mlp2017-8/lab[n]
+```
+Related to MLP module not found error:
+Another thing is to make sure you have you MLP_DATA_DIR path correctly set. You can check this by typing 
+```echo $MLP_DATA_DIR```
+in the command line. If this is not set up, you need to follow the instructions on the set-up-environment to get going. 
+
+Finally, please make sure you have run 
+```python setup.py develop```