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title: "Installation"
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-If you are logged in to an Arvados VM, the @arv@ tool should be installed.
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-To use @arv@ elsewhere, you can either install the @arvados-cli@ gem via RubyGems or build and install the package from source.
+Arvados CLI tools are written in Ruby and Python. To use the @arv@ command, you can either install the @arvados-cli@ gem via RubyGems or build and install the package from source. The @arv@ command also relies on other Arvados tools. To get those, install the @arvados-python-client@ and @arvados-cwl-runner@ packages, either from PyPI or source.
-h4. Prerequisites: Ruby >= 2.1.0 and curl libraries
+h3. Prerequisites: Ruby, Bundler, and curl libraries
-Make sure you have "Ruby and bundler":/install/install-manual-prerequisites-ruby.html installed.
+{% include 'install_ruby_and_bundler' %}
Install curl libraries with your system's package manager. For example, on Debian or Ubuntu:
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-$ <code class="userinput">sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev</code>
+~$ <code class="userinput">sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev</code>
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-h4. Option 1: install with RubyGems
+h3. Option 1: Install from RubyGems and PyPI
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+~$ <code class="userinput">sudo -i gem install arvados-cli</code>
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-$ <code class="userinput">sudo gem install arvados-cli</code>
+~$ <code class="userinput">pip install arvados-python-client arvados-cwl-runner</code>
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-h4. Option 2: build and install from source
+h3. Option 2: Build and install from source
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-$ <code class="userinput">git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git</code>
-$ <code class="userinput">cd arvados/sdk/cli</code>
-$ <code class="userinput">gem build arvados-cli.gemspec</code>
-$ <code class="userinput">sudo gem install arvados-cli-*.gem</code>
+~$ <code class="userinput">git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git</code>
+~$ <code class="userinput">cd arvados/sdk/cli</code>
+~/arvados/sdk/cli$ <code class="userinput">gem build arvados-cli.gemspec</code>
+~/arvados/sdk/cli$ <code class="userinput">sudo -i gem install arvados-cli-*.gem</code>
+~/arvados/sdk/cli$ <code class="userinput">cd ../python</code>
+~/arvados/sdk/python$ <code class="userinput">python setup.py install</code>
+~/arvados/sdk/python$ <code class="userinput">cd ../cwl</code>
+~/arvados/sdk/cwl$ <code class="userinput">python setup.py install</code>
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