Installation

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Please read the README file. It provides a step by step overview of the installation process.

Also please be sure to have the necessary prerequisites installed on your system (see the FAQs). Please do this before you do anything else.

The installation is an interactive process where the user is prompted for input. To help manage your expectations of the installation process, the following should give you a ballpark idea:

• The entire process takes approximately an hour.
• There are about a 20 prompts for user input - almost all of which have resonable defaults (you can just hit enter - recommended).
• The lion's share of the time is spent building the various tools and executables (heads up: globus and python take a relatively long time to build).

We have worked hard to make the installation of the ESGF Node rather painless. Please peruse our wiki and join our mailing lists where you may post any questions and/or issues regarding the installation processes or any other ESGF node related topic. Also stay in the loop with project announcements and other information posted on our twitter feed.

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![ESGF data node diagram][dataNodePic]

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