Installation

Grab the SPADE deliverable package at http://spade2.googleprojects.com. Uncompress it and launch the configure.py script in order to configure the platform. You can provide a parameter to this script, which is the machine's hostname and that will be used as the platform's name. Finally, launch the runspade.py script and see your platform rise before your eyes. After a few seconds you should see the green word Done on the screen confirming that the platform was succesfully launched. In a nutshell:

$ tar xvzf spade-2.0.0.tar.gz
$ cd spade
$ python configure.py myhost.myprovider.com
$ python runspade.py

And that's it. If everything went well, congratulations! You have succesfully installed SPADE! If something went wrong, don't panic!, head to chapter XXX "FAQ and Troubleshooting" for answers or follow the rest of this manual to know a lot more about SPADE.