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Tal Weiss — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:59:38 -0000

The script name is "bin/install-ec2-tools.sh" not "bin/install_ec2_tools.sh".

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Daniel Povey — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:13:39 -0000

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-# Getting Started with Kluster
+## Getting Started with Kluster

 Everything here assumes you are in some kind of Unix-like environment.  The current writer is doing the client-side scripting mostly from a Mac laptop, but this should work from any type of UNIX or even cygwin.

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Daniel Povey — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:28:38 -0000

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 OK.  By this point you have downloaded the EC2 API tools and the kluster scripts, and you have the basic software prerequisites on the client side.  The next stage is getting your security keys set up.

 Next: [Getting your Amazon Web Services (AWS) keys set up.](GettingYourKeys)
+Up: [Kluster Wiki](Home)

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Daniel Povey — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:16:30 -0000

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 Then `cd kluster`.  You now need to install Amazon's "EC2 API tools".  These are command-line tools with names like `ec2-describe-instances` (and short-form names like `ec2din` in this case), that allow you to do the things you could do from Amazon's Web-based EC2 console, from the command line.  We provide a script that will install those tools and also set up some necessary paths for you in a file called `vars.sh`.  From the directory `kluster`, type the command `bin/install_ec2_tools.sh`.  The output should look like the following:

-    # bin/install_ec2_tools.sh
+    # bin/install-ec2-tools.sh
     Linking ec2-api-tools-1.6.7.1 to ec2
     Putting the line  export KLUSTER_HOME=/Users/danielpovey/kluster  in ./vars.sh

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Daniel Povey — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:09:33 -0000

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 OK.  By this point you have downloaded the EC2 API tools and the kluster scripts, and you have the basic software prerequisites on the client side.  The next stage is getting your security keys set up.

-Next: [Your EC2 Security Keys](GettingYourKeys)
+Next: [Getting your Amazon Web Services (AWS) keys set up.](GettingYourKeys)

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Daniel Povey — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:50:36 -0000

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     . vars.sh

 This will source certain variables in `vars.sh` that will enable you to run the ec2 tools.  If it gives you warnings, it will be because Java was not installed or was not found, so you may have to install java.  **Caution: if you did not know that `. vars.sh` has the same effect as pasting the contents of vars.sh into the current shell, then stop here.  You do not know enough UNIX to administer systems using our tools.  You have too much to learn, and we cannot teach you.**
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+OK.  By this point you have downloaded the EC2 API tools and the kluster scripts, and you have the basic software prerequisites on the client side.  The next stage is getting your security keys set up.
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+Next: [Your EC2 Security Keys](GettingYourKeys)

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Daniel Povey — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:41:02 -0000

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 # Getting Started with Kluster

 Everything here assumes you are in some kind of Unix-like environment.  The current writer is doing the client-side scripting mostly from a Mac laptop, but this should work from any type of UNIX or even cygwin.
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     . vars.sh

-This will source certain variables in `vars.sh` that will enable you to run the ec2 tools.
-If it gives you warnings, it will be because Java was not installed or was not found,
-so you may have to install java.  **Caution: if you did not know that `. vars.sh` has the same effect as pasting the contents of vars.sh into the current shell, then stop here.  You do not know enough UNIX to administer systems using our tools.  You have too much to learn, and we cannot teach you.**
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+This will source certain variables in `vars.sh` that will enable you to run the ec2 tools.  If it gives you warnings, it will be because Java was not installed or was not found, so you may have to install java.  **Caution: if you did not know that `. vars.sh` has the same effect as pasting the contents of vars.sh into the current shell, then stop here.  You do not know enough UNIX to administer systems using our tools.  You have too much to learn, and we cannot teach you.**

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Daniel Povey — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:07:11 -0000

Getting Started with Kluster

Everything here assumes you are in some kind of Unix-like environment. The current writer is doing the client-side scripting mostly from a Mac laptop, but this should work from any type of UNIX or even cygwin.

You need to have Subversion (svn) installed, so you can download the Kluster scripts to your machine. Once you have it installed, type, from your home directory:

svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/kluster/code/trunk kluster

Then cd kluster. You now need to install Amazon's "EC2 API tools". These are command-line tools with names like ec2-describe-instances (and short-form names like ec2din in this case), that allow you to do the things you could do from Amazon's Web-based EC2 console, from the command line. We provide a script that will install those tools and also set up some necessary paths for you in a file called vars.sh. From the directory kluster, type the command bin/install_ec2_tools.sh. The output should look like the following:

# bin/install_ec2_tools.sh
Linking ec2-api-tools-1.6.7.1 to ec2
Putting the line  export KLUSTER_HOME=/Users/danielpovey/kluster  in ./vars.sh

Then type

. vars.sh

This will source certain variables in vars.sh that will enable you to run the ec2 tools.
If it gives you warnings, it will be because Java was not installed or was not found,
so you may have to install java. Caution: if you did not know that . vars.sh has the same effect as pasting the contents of vars.sh into the current shell, then stop here. You do not know enough UNIX to administer systems using our tools. You have too much to learn, and we cannot teach you.