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 sudo apt remove core
 ```
 
+## Installation Examples
+
+The below links will take you to sections providing complete examples for installing
+CORE and related utilities on fresh installations. Otherwise, a breakdown for installing
+different components and the options available are detailed below.
+
+* [Ubuntu 22.04](install_ubuntu.md)
+* [CentOS 7](install_centos.md)
+
 ## Package Based Install
 
 Starting with 9.0.0 there are pre-built rpm/deb packages. You can retrieve the
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+# Install CentOS
+
+Below is a detailed path for installing CORE and related tooling on a fresh
+CentOS 7 install. Both of the examples below will install CORE into its
+own virtual environment located at **/opt/core/venv**. Both examples below
+also assume using **~/Documents** as the working directory.
+
+## Script Install
+
+This section covers step by step commands that can be used to install CORE using
+the script based installation path.
+
+``` shell
+# install system packages
+sudo yum -y update
+sudo yum install -y git sudo wget tzdata unzip libpcap-devel libpcre3-devel \
+    libxml2-devel protobuf-devel unzip uuid-devel tcpdump make epel-release
+sudo yum-builddep -y python3
+
+# install python3.9
+cd ~/Documents
+wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.15/Python-3.9.15.tgz
+tar xf Python-3.9.15.tgz
+cd Python-3.9.15
+./configure --enable-optimizations --with-ensurepip=install
+sudo make -j$(nproc) altinstall
+python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+
+# install core
+cd ~/Documents
+git clone https://github.com/coreemu/core
+cd core
+NO_SYSTEM=1 PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python3.9 ./setup.sh
+source ~/.bashrc
+PYTHON=python3.9 inv install -p /usr --no-python
+
+# install emane
+cd ~/Documents
+wget -q https://adjacentlink.com/downloads/emane/emane-1.3.3-release-1.el7.x86_64.tar.gz
+tar xf emane-1.3.3-release-1.el7.x86_64.tar.gz
+cd emane-1.3.3-release-1/rpms/el7/x86_64
+sudo yum install -y ./openstatistic*.rpm ./emane*.rpm ./python3-emane_*.rpm
+
+# install emane python bindings into CORE virtual environment
+cd ~/Documents
+wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.19.6/protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip
+mkdir protoc
+unzip protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip -d protoc
+git clone https://github.com/adjacentlink/emane.git
+cd emane
+git checkout v1.3.3
+./autogen.sh
+PYTHON=/opt/core/venv/bin/python ./configure --prefix=/usr
+cd src/python
+PATH=~/Documents/protoc/bin:$PATH make
+sudo /opt/core/venv/bin/python -m pip install .
+```
+
+## Package Install
+
+This section covers step by step commands that can be used to install CORE using
+the package based installation path. This will require downloading a package from the release
+page, to use during the install CORE step below.
+
+``` shell
+# install system packages
+sudo yum -y update
+sudo yum install -y git sudo wget tzdata unzip libpcap-devel libpcre3-devel libxml2-devel \
+    protobuf-devel unzip uuid-devel tcpdump automake gawk libreadline-devel libtool \
+    pkg-config make
+sudo yum-builddep -y python3
+
+# install python3.9
+cd ~/Documents
+wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.15/Python-3.9.15.tgz
+tar xf Python-3.9.15.tgz
+cd Python-3.9.15
+./configure --enable-optimizations --with-ensurepip=install
+sudo make -j$(nproc) altinstall
+python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+
+# install core
+cd ~/Documents
+sudo PYTHON=python3.9 yum install -y ./core_*.rpm
+
+# install ospf mdr
+cd ~/Documents
+git clone https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/ospf-mdr.git
+cd ospf-mdr
+./bootstrap.sh
+./configure --disable-doc --enable-user=root --enable-group=root \
+    --with-cflags=-ggdb --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/quagga --enable-vtysh \
+    --localstatedir=/var/run/quagga
+make -j$(nproc)
+sudo make install
+
+# install emane
+cd ~/Documents
+wget -q https://adjacentlink.com/downloads/emane/emane-1.3.3-release-1.el7.x86_64.tar.gz
+tar xf emane-1.3.3-release-1.el7.x86_64.tar.gz
+cd emane-1.3.3-release-1/rpms/el7/x86_64
+sudo yum install -y ./openstatistic*.rpm ./emane*.rpm ./python3-emane_*.rpm
+
+# install emane python bindings into CORE virtual environment
+cd ~/Documents
+wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.19.6/protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip
+mkdir protoc
+unzip protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip -d protoc
+git clone https://github.com/adjacentlink/emane.git
+cd emane
+git checkout v1.3.3
+./autogen.sh
+PYTHON=/opt/core/venv/bin/python ./configure --prefix=/usr
+cd src/python
+PATH=~/Documents/protoc/bin:$PATH make
+sudo /opt/core/venv/bin/python -m pip install .
+```
+
+## Setup PATH
+
+The CORE virtual environment and related scripts will not be found on your PATH,
+so some adjustments needs to be made.
+
+To add support for your user to run scripts from the virtual environment:
+```shell
+# can add to ~/.bashrc
+export PATH=$PATH:/opt/core/venv/bin
+```
+
+This will not solve the path issue when running as sudo, so you can do either
+of the following to compensate.
+```shell
+# run command passing in the right PATH to pickup from the user running the command
+sudo env PATH=$PATH core-daemon
+
+# add an alias to ~/.bashrc or something similar
+alias sudop='sudo env PATH=$PATH'
+# now you can run commands like so
+sudop core-daemon
+```
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+# Install Ubuntu
+
+Below is a detailed path for installing CORE and related tooling on a fresh
+Ubuntu 22.04 install. Both of the examples below will install CORE into its
+own virtual environment located at **/opt/core/venv**. Both examples below
+also assume using **~/Documents** as the working directory.
+
+## Script Install
+
+This section covers step by step commands that can be used to install CORE using
+the script based installation path.
+
+``` shell
+# install system packages
+sudo apt-get update -y
+sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates git sudo wget tzdata libpcap-dev libpcre3-dev \
+    libprotobuf-dev libxml2-dev protobuf-compiler unzip uuid-dev iproute2 iputils-ping \
+    tcpdump
+
+# install core
+cd ~/Documents
+git clone https://github.com/coreemu/core
+cd core
+./setup.sh
+source ~/.bashrc
+inv install
+
+# install emane
+cd ~/Documents
+wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.19.6/protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip
+mkdir protoc
+unzip protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip -d protoc
+git clone https://github.com/adjacentlink/emane.git
+cd emane
+./autogen.sh
+./configure --prefix=/usr
+make -j$(nproc)
+sudo make install
+cd src/python
+make clean
+PATH=~/Documents/protoc/bin:$PATH make
+sudo /opt/core/venv/bin/python -m pip install .
+```
+
+## Package Install
+
+This section covers step by step commands that can be used to install CORE using
+the package based installation path. This will require downloading a package from the release
+page, to use during the install CORE step below.
+
+``` shell
+# install system packages
+sudo apt-get update -y
+sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates python3 python3-tk python3-pip python3-venv \
+    libpcap-dev libpcre3-dev libprotobuf-dev libxml2-dev protobuf-compiler unzip \
+    uuid-dev automake gawk git wget libreadline-dev libtool pkg-config g++ make \
+    iputils-ping tcpdump
+
+# install core
+cd ~/Documents
+sudo apt-get install -y ./core_*.deb
+
+# install ospf mdr
+cd ~/Documents
+git clone https://github.com/USNavalResearchLaboratory/ospf-mdr.git
+cd ospf-mdr
+./bootstrap.sh
+./configure --disable-doc --enable-user=root --enable-group=root \
+    --with-cflags=-ggdb --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/quagga --enable-vtysh \
+    --localstatedir=/var/run/quagga
+make -j$(nproc)
+sudo make install
+
+# install emane
+cd ~/Documents
+wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.19.6/protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip
+mkdir protoc
+unzip protoc-3.19.6-linux-x86_64.zip -d protoc
+git clone https://github.com/adjacentlink/emane.git
+cd emane
+./autogen.sh
+./configure --prefix=/usr
+make -j$(nproc)
+sudo make install
+cd src/python
+make clean
+PATH=~/Documents/protoc/bin:$PATH make
+sudo /opt/core/venv/bin/python -m pip install .
+```
+
+## Setup PATH
+
+The CORE virtual environment and related scripts will not be found on your PATH,
+so some adjustments needs to be made.
+
+To add support for your user to run scripts from the virtual environment:
+```shell
+# can add to ~/.bashrc
+export PATH=$PATH:/opt/core/venv/bin
+```
+
+This will not solve the path issue when running as sudo, so you can do either
+of the following to compensate.
+```shell
+# run command passing in the right PATH to pickup from the user running the command
+sudo env PATH=$PATH core-daemon
+
+# add an alias to ~/.bashrc or something similar
+alias sudop='sudo env PATH=$PATH'
+# now you can run commands like so
+sudop core-daemon
+```