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// serverless/knative-client.adoc

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= Installing the `kn` CLI for Linux

For Linux distributions, you can download the CLI directly as a `tar.gz` archive.


.Procedure

. Download the link:https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/serverless/latest[CLI].

. Unpack the archive:
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[source,terminal]
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$ tar -xf <file>
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. Move the `kn` binary to a directory on your PATH.

. To check your path, run:
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[source,terminal]
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$ echo $PATH
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[NOTE]
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If you do not use RHEL or Fedora, ensure that *libc* is installed in a directory on your library path.
If *libc* is not available, you might see the following error when you run CLI commands:

[source,terminal]
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$ kn: No such file or directory
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