#summary How to install CORE for Linux

= Prerequisites =
  # First install [http://www.centos.org CentOS] 5.4.
  # Install the [http://www.openvz.org OpenVZ] kernel and utilities (these instructions are straight from the [http://wiki.openvz.org/Quick_installation#yum_pre-setup OpenVZ wiki]
{{{
  cd /etc/yum.repos.d
  wget http://download.openvz.org/openvz.repo
  wget http://download.openvz.org/RPM-GPG-Key-OpenVZ
  rpm --import RPM-GPG-Key-OpenVZ
  yum install ovzkernel vzctl
}}}
  # Install other prerequisite packages. Enable the [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL EPEL repo] in order to get `ebtables`.
{{{
  yum install bridge-utils iproute
  rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
  yum install ebtables
}}}

You should follow the other instructions from the [http://wiki.openvz.org/Quick_installation#yum_pre-setup OpenVZ wiki Quick Installation], with the sections *Configuring the bootloader*, *sysctl*, and *SELinux*.

= Installing from RPMs =
Download the CORE RPM packages from here: 
http://downloads.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/core/installer-packages/

CORE releases for Linux consist of two RPM files. The `core-n.n...rpm` package contains the CORE GUI, API library, and daemons necessary for running on Linux. The `core-root-n.n....rpm` package is quite a bit larger, as it contains a default [http://wiki.openvz.org/OS_template OS template cache] for CORE that is installed to `/vz/private/core-root`. Individual CORE nodes will symlink to share this root filesystem.
{{{
  rpm -ivh core-3.5-1.i386.rpm 
  rpm -ivh core-root-3.5-1.i386.rpm
}}}


= Installing from source =
Download the source tarball from here:
http://downloads.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/core/source/

To build and configure it, you should have the autotools suite installed (autoconf, automake, libtool), an easy way to get these is using `yum groupinstall "Development Tools"`.
{{{
  tar xzf core-3.5.tar.gz
  cd core-3.5
  ./bootstrap.sh
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
}}}