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title: Operator machine
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date: 2025-08-03
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series:
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- Wild Cloud Setup
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series_order: 4
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---
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(This page assumes you already have your hardware ready to set up. If you don't, read [Setting Up Your Hardware](../hardware/)).
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## Your operator machine
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Your operator machine is the computer you manage your wild cloud with. Below, we will install the Wild Cloud software on your operator machine.
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Your operator machine should be a [Linux](/learning/linux/) machine on your LAN. It's helpful if it has a nice big hard drive you can use for backing up your wild cloud data.
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## Install the Wild Cloud software
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{{< go-deeper >}}
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We recognize that this part of the guide requires more knowledge of `git` and `bash`. We plan to create a `wild` CLI and perhaps even a GUI setup before wider release. For now, we are prototyping our (fully functional) POC by using scripts from this Wild Cloud repo.
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{{< /go-deeper >}}
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Download the Wild Cloud software using git:
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```bash
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git clone https://git.civilsociety.dev/CSTF/wild-cloud.git
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```
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Add the `bin` directory to your path.
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```bash
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export PATH=$PATH:~/wild-cloud/bin
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```
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Install dependencies:
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```bash
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scripts/setup-utils.sh
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```
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## Create your Wild Cloud Home
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Now that you have the Wild Cloud software installed, we are going to create a directory that will hold everything about your personal wild cloud. We call this your "Wild Cloud Home".
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{{< definition >}}
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Your **Wild Cloud Home** is the directory where all of your wild cloud data will be stored. This includes your configuration files, data files, and any other files related to your wild cloud.
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{{< /definition >}}
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You can put it in any directory. Here we show an example if you want to make a directory named `my-wild-cloud` in your home directory.
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```bash
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mkdir -p ~/my-wild-cloud
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cd ~/my-wild-cloud
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wild-cloud-scaffold
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```
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That's it! Your wild cloud operator machine is ready to go! Most of the rest of the instructions in this guide will assume you are working within this directory.
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