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For proper functionality the OpenIFS requires a small number of Linux environment variables.
The most important environment variable is OIFS_HOME, which describes the location of the OpenIFS model installation. The path where the git repository is extracted to will be set to $OIFS_HOME.
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This variable could be set in your shell configuration (e.g. in .bashrc) or in a separate OpenIFS platform configuration script, which we will be discussing in a later section and which could be loaded prior to using OpenIFS.
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