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+title: Operator machine
+date: 2025-08-03
+series:
+  - Wild Cloud Setup
+series_order: 4
+---
+
+(This page assumes you already have your hardware ready to set up. If you don't, read [Setting Up Your Hardware](../hardware/)).
+
+## Your operator machine
+
+Your operator machine is the computer you manage your wild cloud with. Below, we will install the Wild Cloud software on your operator machine.
+
+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.
+
+## Install the Wild Cloud software
+
+{{< go-deeper >}}
+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.
+{{< /go-deeper >}}
+
+Download the Wild Cloud software using git:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://git.civilsociety.dev/CSTF/wild-cloud.git
+```
+
+Add the `bin` directory to your path.
+```bash
+export PATH=$PATH:~/wild-cloud/bin
+```
+
+Install dependencies:
+
+```bash
+scripts/setup-utils.sh
+```
+
+## Create your Wild Cloud Home
+
+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".
+
+{{< definition >}}
+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.
+{{< /definition >}}
+
+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.
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p ~/my-wild-cloud
+cd ~/my-wild-cloud
+wild-cloud-scaffold
+```
+
+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.