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Downloading and Installing obsutil

Download Links

Table 1 lists the download links of obsutil for different OSs.

**Table 1** Download links of obsutil
OS	Software Package	SHA-256 Checksum
Windows (64-bit)	obsutil_windows64	46440850e63600b31888f2c7c8e79db99f01d4ddd4e2b8a1e01af282ee4be93a
Linux AMD (64-bit) Linux x86 (64-bit)	obsutil_linux_amd64	5b1b04b8076ab6171abe9a8b91ec55aea3ceb026f7edfbe1fde831631a536c37
Linux ARM (64-bit)	obsutil_linux_arm64	89ac3d9a57b2d9633be61e050024d52483881975f058e20c5e981a45587f9fa4
macOS (64-bit)	obsutil_mac64	7bf5afa0960e1ab163dccf0a53bcd6fe13b9d6f7d6ba541c116103bfa8424118

Getting Started with obsutil

You can download obsutil and then use it without installation. Methods of downloading obsutil vary depending on the OS type. For details, see the following:

Before performing the following operations, make sure that your cloud server has been connected to the Internet, or the obsutil installation will fail.

In Windows

Download obsutil to your local PC.
Decompress the software package.
Use Command Prompt to go to the decompressed folder and run obsutil commands.

In Linux

Open the CLI and run the wget command to download obsutil.

Linux AMD (64-bit) and Linux x86 (64-bit):
```
wget https://obs-community-intl.obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/obsutil/current/obsutil_linux_amd64.tar.gz
```
Linux ARM (64-bit):
```
wget https://obs-community-intl.obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/obsutil/current/obsutil_linux_arm64.tar.gz
```
- The URL after wget is the download link of the installation package, for which you do not need to make any adaptations. To download the package, just copy and run the whole wget command.
- You can also download the obsutil package from a PC running Windows and then use a cross-platform transfer tool (such as WinSCP) to transfer the package to your Linux host.
Run the following command in the directory where the tool package resides:
```
tar -xzvf obsutil_linux_amd64.tar.gz
```
Go to the directory where obsutil resides and run the following command to grant the execute permission on obsutil:
```
chmod 755 obsutil
```
You must grant the execute permission on obsutil, or error "No such file or directory" will be reported during a query of the obsutil version number.
Continue to run the following command in the directory. If the version number of obsutil is returned, the installation is successful.
```
./obsutil version
```
Figure 1 Successful installation

In macOS

Download obsutil to your local PC.
Decompress the software package.
Open the CLI, go to the directory where obsutil belongs, and run the following command to add execute permissions to obsutil:
```
chmod 755 obsutil
```

To improve the usability of obsutil, you can set obsutil commands as built-in commands by running the shell or batch script in the software package. This way, you can run obsutil commands in any directory. For details, see Setting obsutil Commands as Built-in Commands.

More Operations

If you need to use obsutil on a Huawei Cloud ECS, you can configure access over an intranet to reduce costs on traffic by referring to Using obsutil on a Linux ECS to Access OBS over an Intranet.