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Stork Documentation: Installation

1. Installing Stork and Storkutil

Stork consists of two separate installations: the Stork client and the Stork enduser utilities (Storkutil). The stork client is used to directly install packages on a node, while Storkutil will provide tools to help prepare and organize your package installations and management. In general, while the Stork client can be used manually, it is more likely that you will use Storkutil to manage your packages, which will in turn use the Stork client for installation. In either case, both will need to be set up for use.

To use Stork on your slice, you must run the Stork initscript from PlanetLab. Log into PlanetLab, choose a slice, and select Add New Attribute. Select pl_initscript, and then enter 2 in the "Value" text box.

After finishing installation, download the Stork Enduser tarball and unpack it to obtain the Stork enduser utilities. This tarball also includes a sample stork configuration file, named sample-stork.conf which will need to be modified in order to successfully use the stork utilities.

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