| 9 |  | OVS can be installed either from source or from binaries. Section 1.2 covers how to build from source, and section 1.3covers install from binaries. | 
          
            | 10 |  |  | 
          
            | 11 |  | ==  1.1 Prerequisites == | 
          
            | 12 |  | The node used here is a NetFPGA cube, the standard node for !SandBox9. The node was imaged with ubuntu.ndz, based on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick). The steps have been tested successfully with up to Ubuntu12.04. | 
          
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            | 14 |  | == 1. 2 Method 1: from source == | 
          
            | 15 |  | The steps followed in this section are based on the contents of INSTALL.Linux, included with the OVS tarball and also found [http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL .Linux;hb=HEAD here](also attached at the end of this page for your convenience). It should be found under the OVS root directory. | 
          
            | 16 |  |  | 
          
            | 17 |  | == 1. 2.1 Getting the source and dependencies == | 
          
            |  | 9 | OVS can be installed either from source or from binaries. [#src Section 1.1] covers how to build from source, and [#bin section 1.2] covers install from binaries. | 
          
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            |  | 11 | === Prerequisites === | 
          
            |  | 12 | OVS should install/work with relatively little effort on Ubuntu (or perhaps other Linuxes as well). The following installation/operation steps were done on Ubuntu 10.10 through 12.04. | 
          
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            |  | 14 | == 1.1 Method 1: from source == #src | 
          
            |  | 15 | The steps followed in this section are based on the contents of INSTALL.Linux, included with the OVS tarball and also found [http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL;hb=HEAD here](also attached at the end of this page for your convenience). It should be found under the OVS root directory. | 
          
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            |  | 17 | == 1.1.1 Getting the source and dependencies == |