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Installing PCF Dev

Use the following steps to install PCF Dev on your local machine:

Open the URL for PCF Dev on PivNet using: https://network.pivotal.io/products/pcfdev.

Download the latest version of the PCF Dev CLI plug-in for your operating system, which will be in the following format:

pcfdev-VERSION-PLATFORM.zip

Unzip the ZIP file:

$ unzip pcfdev-VERSION-osx.zip

Navigate to the folder it unzipped into using PowerShell (Windows) or a Unix Terminal (OS X or Linux).
Run the PCF Dev binary. This will install the PCF Dev plug-in for the cf CLI. Upon successful installation, you'll see a message like this:

Plugin successfully installed. ...

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