Depending on your requirements, it is quite possible that your SOE operating system build has sufficient software installed, and requires only configuration work. However, for many people, that will not be the case, so we will begin this chapter with a section covering the installation of software. As with all our work so far, our desire is that anything we do here is repeatable and lends itself well to automation, and thus, even if new software is required, it is desirable that we do not install it by hand.

Let's start by looking at the simplest possible case here—installing a native operating system package.