Can't install Easy WP SMTP locally.

I have WP installed on my local machine and I click "install" on the plugins page for Easy WP SMTP. Immediately, a modal pops up wanting me to fill out the hostname, ftp username, and ftp password. installation will not proceed without these options filled out. Isn't this course geared toward local WP development???? This isn't really working out. So far, I've been pretty disappointed with the WP courses on Treehouse. I run Ubuntu on my machine and so far there's been no mention of running anything on a Linux machine...even though nearly any web host is going to be hosting your WP site on a Linux server. Here's another example of me having to go to Google to find a tutorial. I'm beginning to wonder why I'm paying for Treehouse when I'm finding all my tutorials via Google. In case anyone needs some help with local WP installation under Ubuntu 16.04, here are some links for you.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu https://www.atlantic.net/community/howto/install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-16-04/ http://www.tutorialspoint.com/articles/how-to-change-apache-default-web-root-folder-to-a-new-location-on-ubuntu-16-04 https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

Unfortunately, I've no idea about which plugin to use to get email working in my local WP setup......that's why I'm paying Treehouse, but, well....ya' know.

One last thing, I believe I saw in one of these videos, Zac was installing WordPress v3.8(ish). Wordpress is now up to v4.6. Including all of the patch releases, there are close to 40 releases between the version being installed in these videos and what the current release is. I think it's time to update your lesson.