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The Arvados FUSE driver is a Python utility that allows you to browse Arvados projects and collections in a filesystem, so you can access that data using existing Unix tools.

h2. Installation

If you are logged in to a managed Arvados VM, the @arv-mount@ utility should already be installed.

To use the FUSE driver elsewhere, you can install from a distribution package or pip.

h2. Option 1: Install from distribution packages

First, "add the appropriate package repository for your distribution":{{ site.baseurl }}/install/packages.html.

{% assign arvados_component = 'python3-arvados-fuse' %}

{% include 'install_packages' %}

h2. Option 2: Install with pip

Run @pip install arvados_fuse@ in an appropriate installation environment, such as a virtualenv.

Note: The FUSE driver depends on the @libcurl@ and @libfuse@ C libraries.  To install the module you may need to install development headers from your distribution.  On Debian-based distributions you can install them by running:

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<pre><code># <span class="userinput">apt install build-essential python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libfuse-dev libssl-dev</span>
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h2. Usage

For an introduction of how to mount and navigate data, refer to the "Access Keep as a GNU/Linux filesystem":{{site.baseurl}}/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep-mount-gnu-linux.html tutorial.