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+Install
+=======
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+For this guide, you will need a laptop/desktop with a recent version of
+a Linux distro that is supported by Mininet. For this guide, the *Ubuntu 18.04 LTS* release was used.
+Some tweaks maybe required to Mini-NDN's install.sh file for other distros.
+Note that you'll need administrative privileges in order to download and install
+extra packages and also to execute **Mini-NDN**.
+
+Using Vagrantfile
+-----------------
+
+With Vagrant installed, simply do ``vagrant up`` which will bring up an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine
+and install Mini-NDN and all its dependencies on it. Please make sure to tweak the CPU core count
+(default 4 cores) and RAM (default 4GB) according to your needs before doing vagrant up. Mini-NDN
+can be found in /home/vagrant/mini-ndn which is a symlink to /vagrant if Vagrantfile was used from within mini-ndn cloned on the host. Otherwise it is an actual clone of mini-ndn.
+
+Using install.sh
+----------------
+
+Mini-NDN depends on Mininet and NDN software to be installed in the system.
+If you have all the dependencies (see sections below) **installed in the system** simply
+clone this repository and run:
+
+::
+
+    ./install.sh -i
+
+The ``-i`` option uses ``setup.py develop`` to point the system install
+to the current directory. So any changes made to the cloned ``mini-ndn``
+folder will be used without having to install it again to the system.
+If you do not need to modify the core of Mini-NDN, then setup.py install (or pip install .)
+can be used directly. See :doc:`experiment <experiment>` for more information on running.
+
+If you don't have the dependencies, the following command will
+install them from source along with Mini-NDN. The dependencies include
+Mininet, NDN core (ndn-cxx, NFD, Chronosync, PSync, NLSR), Infoedit,
+and NDN Common Client Libraries (CCL). If you do not wish to install
+the master versions of the NDN core or want to switch to specific versions,
+you can edit the install.sh with release tags/specific versions.
+
+.. _scaling-note:
+.. important::
+    If you wish to scale Mini-NDN experiments and do not have use for security extensions
+    in your emulations, you should apply the ndn-cxx patch given in the ``patches`` folder
+    using ``./install.sh -p`` before running the following commands. The ndn-cxx patch is
+    taken from ndnSIM which provides an in-memory dummy KeyChain to reduce CPU computations.
+    After these patches are applied sleep time after NFD, nfdc, NLSR, etc. is not required
+    making the startup **MUCH** faster and scaling of Mini-NDN **MUCH** better.
+
+::
+
+    ./install.sh -a
+
+This pulls the NDN software from Github to ``ndn-src`` folder under the project.
+
+.. note::
+    If any changes are made to ``ndn-src`` folder, please don't forgot to re-install
+    the sources to the system.
+
+To install without CCL, use:
+
+::
+
+    ./install.sh -mni
+
+See ``install.sh -h`` for detailed options.
+
+Installing Dependencies
+-----------------------
+
+Mininet
+_______
+
+Mini-NDN is based on Mininet. To install Mininet:
+
+::
+
+    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mininet/mininet.git
+
+After Mininet source is on your system, run the following command to
+install Mininet core dependencies and Open vSwitch:
+
+::
+
+    ./util/install.sh -nv
+
+To check if Mininet is working correctly, run this test:
+
+::
+
+    sudo mn --test pingall
+
+This will print out a series of statements that show the test setup and
+the results of the test. Look for ``Results:`` two-thirds of the way
+down where it will indicate the percentage of dropped packets. Your
+results should show "0% dropped (2/2 received)".
+
+NOTE: Mini-NDN, while providing a high level of emulation of hosts,
+requires programs to be installed onto your computer. It will not work
+if they are not installed. If you do not want NDN software installed
+onto your computer, you can use a virtual machine, which can be quite
+simply set up with the provided Vagrantfile.
+
+NDN dependencies
+________________
+
+Each node in Mini-NDN will run the official implementation of NDN
+installed on your system. The following dependencies are needed:
+
+Mini-NDN uses NFD, NLSR, and ndn-tools.
+
+- To install NFD: https://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/INSTALL.html
+- To install NLSR: https://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/current/INSTALL.html
+- To install ndn-tools: https://github.com/named-data/ndn-tools
+
+.. warning::
+    Please do not try to install NDN software from both the source (GitHub) and PPA (apt).
+    It will not work in most cases! If you used ./install.sh -a in the past but now want
+    to use apt, please run ``sudo ./waf uninstall`` in all the NDN projects before proceeding
+    with apt. Similarly, remove from apt if switching to source.
+
+Please see the :ref:`scaling-note <scaling-note>` to learn about disabling
+security for better scalability.
+
+Note that all three of these can be installed from the Named Data PPA.
+Instructions for setting it up can be found in the NFD installation
+instructions. Note that PPA and installs from source **cannot** be
+mixed. You must completely remove PPA installs from the system if switching
+to source and vice-versa.
+
+For PPA installs, if you are using a custom nfd.conf file in an experiment, you should
+place it in /usr/local/etc/ndn/ rather than /etc/ndn/. This is to avoid
+a bug from the default configuration file for the PPA, which is
+incompatible with Mini-NDN.
+
+Infoedit
+________
+
+Infoedit is used to edit configuration files for NFD and NLSR.
+To install infoedit:
+
+::
+
+    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NDN-Routing/infoedit
+    cd infoedit
+    make
+    sudo make install
+
+Verification
+------------
+
+You can execute the following example to bring up the Mini-NDN command line
+with NFD and NLSR running on each node:
+
+::
+
+    sudo python examples/mnndn.py
+
+You can use these steps to run the sample pingall experiment:
+
+1. Issue the command: ``sudo python examples/nlsr/pingall.py``
+2. When the ``mini-ndn>`` CLI prompt appears, the experiment has
+   finished. On the Mini-NDN CLI, issue the command ``exit`` to exit the
+   experiment.
+3. Issue the command:
+   ``grep -c content /tmp/minindn/*/ping-data/*.txt``. Each file should
+   report a count of 50.
+4. Issue the command:
+   ``grep -c timeout /tmp/minindn/*/ping-data/*.txt``. Each file should
+   report a count of 0.