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The manual installation guide will walk you through setting up a basic Arvados cluster on a number of (virtual) GNU/Linux systems.

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  <h4>Note</h4>
  <p>If you are looking to evaluate Arvados on one machine, we recommend the "Docker installation method":install-docker.html instead.</p>
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h2. Manual installation

# "Install the Arvados REST API server":install-api-server.html
# "Create standard objects":create-standard-objects.html
# "Install the Single Sign On (SSO) server":install-sso.html
# "Install the Arvados websockets server":install-websockets-server.html
# "Install the Arvados workbench application":install-workbench-app.html
# "Install Keepstore":install-keep.html
# "Install Keepproxy":install-keepproxy.html
# "Install the Crunch dispatcher":install-crunch-dispatch.html
# "Install a shell server":install-shell-server.html
# "Install a compute node":install-compute-node.html
# Install client libraries (see "SDK Reference":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/index.html).