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. At the moment of chosing which operating system to install in your workstation, consider that &TCAR; is completly built on &TCD; and realies on it to achieve most automation tasks. At time of this writing &TCD; release 5.5 was used as platform to support all development work lines inside &TCAR; working copy. So, in order to get a reproducable environemtn, it is convenient that you, too, use the same version of the operating system that we did. To install &TCD; 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 &TCD;, 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. &TCD; ISO files can be downloaded from &TCM;. Assuming you downloaded the DVD ISO of &TCD;, you can burn it using the K3B 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. Once you have the installation media on your hands, the installation process of &TCD; 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. The partition information you set in your workstation is very specific to your personal needs and the technical characteristics of your machine. The partitioning information set the bases of all deployment you pretend to achieve inside the workstation. Generally, the default partitioning schema suggested by &TCD; installer is fine for most avarage workstations, but if you need to customize it, a complete description about how to do it can be found in the Deployment Guide provided by the Deployment_Guide-en-US package. 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. 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: Desktop Environments GNOME Desktop Environment KDE (K Desktop Environment) Applications Authoring and Publishing Editors Graphical Internet Graphics Office/Productivity Text-based Internet Development Development Libraries Development Tools GNOME Software Development KDE Software Development Packages selected in this step provide a base selection of all the packages you need in order to have a functional working copy of &TCAR;. The only exception for this, is the inkscape package and some of its dependencies which don't come with &TCD; and need to be installed from third party repositories like EPEL and RPMForge, as described in the Repositories wiki page.