navmenu: CLI
title: "Installation"
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+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
-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.
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-h3. Prerequisites: Ruby, Bundler, and curl libraries
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
-{% include 'install_ruby_and_bundler' %}
-
-Install curl libraries with your system's package manager. For example, on Debian or Ubuntu:
+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.
-<notextile>
-<pre>
-~$ <code class="userinput">sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev</code>
-</pre>
-</notextile>
+h2. Prerequisites
-h3. Option 1: Install from RubyGems and PyPI
+# "Install Ruby":../../install/ruby.html
+# "Install the Python SDK":../python/sdk-python.html
-<notextile>
-<pre>
-~$ <code class="userinput">sudo -i gem install arvados-cli</code>
-</pre>
-</notextile>
+The SDK uses @curl@ which depends on the @libcurl@ C library. To build the module you may have to install additional packages. On Debian 10 this is:
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<pre>
-~$ <code class="userinput">pip install arvados-python-client arvados-cwl-runner</code>
+$ apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev
</pre>
-</notextile>
-h3. Option 2: Build and install from source
+h2. Install from RubyGems
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<pre>
-~$ <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>
+# <code class="userinput">gem install arvados-cli</code>
</pre>
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