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2. Choosing your Method of installation

Once the xTuple Admin Utility has been cloned onto your system from the GitHub website, you now have the files needed to begin setting up xTAU on your Linux system. There are two main ways you can choose to run these files:

All-in-one installation

The all-in-one method of installation is running the installation directly from the command terminal, installing all of the files completely at their default value. In order to use this method, your machine cannot have previous installations.

Interactive installation

The interactive installation method opens the installation file in the command terminal, and gives you the screens and steps to guide you through the installation process. When the installation process begins you will be given a choice between installing non-web-enabled or web-enabled xTuple.

**Non-web-enabled installation**

This option does not allow the web api to be used during installation. This is the simplest type of installation which only allows direct connections to the database.

**Web-enabled installation**

This option allows the web api to be used and requires a web client for installation. This allows outside applications to connect to the database and this installation includes a Node.js server and nginx.