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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. This installation method is intended for evaluation or production use at scale.

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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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