9.6. Downloading the LOCKSS Installer using git

Warning

The official way to download the LOCKSS Installer is now through the LOCKSS Downloader, rather than cloning the LOCKSS Installer as a Git project as in previous releases.

Follow the instructions in Installing the LOCKSS System to use the LOCKSS Downloader.

Tip

Follow the instructions in Installing Git to install git, if it is not yet available on your system.

Follow these instructions as the lockss user 1:

If you have not previously cloned the LOCKSS Installer, run this command to clone it from GitHub:
```
git clone https://github.com/lockss/lockss-installer
```
Troubleshooting

On early CentOS 7 systems (for example CentOS 7.1), you may receive the error message fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/lockss/lockss-installer/': Peer reports incompatible or unsupported protocol version. This is due to outdated network security libraries. Run the command yum update -y curl nss nss-util nspr as root to update them, and retry the git clone command.
Tip

To avoid a harmless Git warning when updating the LOCKSS Installer from GitHub in the future, run this command within the lockss-installer directory created by the git clone command:
```
git config --local pull.rebase true
```
Checkout the 2.0-alpha5 branch of the LOCKSS Installer by running this command within the lockss-installer directory created by the git clone command earlier:
```
git checkout 2.0-alpha5
```

Footnotes

1: See Running Commands as the lockss User