<sect1 id="repo-ws-install">

    <title>Installing Your Workstation</title>

    <para>

        In order to have a working copy of &TCAR; in your workstation,

        the first step you need to follow is pick up a computer and

        install an operating system in it. This computer will be named

        the workstation from now on. 

    </para>

    <para>

        At the moment of chosing which operating system to install in

        your workstation, consider that &TCAR; is completly built on

        &TC;; and realies on it to achieve most automation tasks. At

        time of this writing &TC;; release 5.5 was used as platform to

        support all development work lines inside &TCAR; working copy.

        So, in order to get a reproducable environment, it is

        convenient that you, too, use the same version of the

        operating system that we did. 

    </para> 

    <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-burning">

    <title>Installation Media</title>

    <para>

        To install &TC;; you need to have access to the installation

        media somehow (e.g., CDs, DVDs, Pendrives, etc.).  If you

        don't have the installation media of &TC;;, you need to

        download the ISO files related to the installation media you

        plan to use (e.g., CD or DVD) and then create the installation

        media by yourself.  &TC;; ISO files can be downloaded from

        &TC;;.

    </para>

    <para>

        Assuming you downloaded the DVD ISO of &TC;;, you can burn it

        using the <application>K3B</application> application and, this

        way, you are creating the installation media you are in need

        of.  Of course, in order to download the ISO files and create

        the installation media, you need to have a workstation already

        functionality where you can realized such tasks. If this is

        the first time for you and see yourself into much troubles

        here, talk to the guys in your nearest LUG, or simply send a

        mail to &TCML; where you'll surely have the answer you need.

    </para>

    <para>

        Once you have the installation media on your hands, the

        installation process of &TC;; is rather straightforward. To

        begin, you put the installation media in your media reader,

        boot the computer from it, and follow the installer

        intructions till it completes all the steps. That simple.

    </para>

    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-partition">

    <title>Partition Information</title>

    <para>

        The partition information you set in your workstation is very

        specific to your personal needs and the technical

        characteristics of your machine.  Generally, the default

        partitioning schema suggested by &TC;; installer is fine for

        the workstation we are preparing as platform for the working

        copy of &TCAR;.  The amount of space required to store a clean

        working copy of &TCAR; is about 1GB. Later, when you start

        rendering content, more space will be required. There is no

        specific space we can suggest since the final amount of space

        required depends on the amount of content you produce after

        downloading a clean working copy; just be sure to leave enough

        space to work (e.g., 10GB seems to be a good number) whatever

        your partition information be.

    </para>

    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="repo-ws-install-packages">

    <title>Packages Selection</title>

    <para>

        The packages selection lets you to specify which software does

        your workstation will have once it be installed. In this step,

        you need to select the following groups of packages:

    </para>

    <itemizedlist>

    <listitem>

    <para>Desktop Environments</para>

    <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            GNOME Desktop Environment

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            KDE (K Desktop Environment)

        </para>

        </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </listitem>

    <listitem>

    <para>Applications</para>

    <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Authoring and Publishing

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Editors

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Graphical Internet

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Graphics

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Office/Productivity

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Text-based Internet

        </para>

        </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </listitem>

    <listitem>

    <para>Development</para>

    <itemizedlist>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Development Libraries

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            Development Tools  

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            GNOME Software Development

        </para>

        </listitem>

        <listitem>

        <para>

            KDE Software Development

        </para>

        </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    <para>

        Packages selected in this step provide a base selection of all

        the packages needed in order to have a functional working

        copy of &TCAR;. The only exception is the

        <package>inkscape</package> package and some of its

        dependencies which don't come with &TC;; and need to be

        installed from third party repositories like EPEL and

        RPMForge, as described in the 

        url="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories">Repositories</ulink>

        wiki page.

    </para>

    </sect2>

</sect1>