</indexterm>Preparing to Install the Lustre Software</title>
<para>You can install the Lustre software from downloaded packages (RPMs)
or directly from the source code. This chapter describes how to install the
- Lustre RPM packages. For information about installing from source code, see
-
- <xref linkend="installinglustrefromsourcecode" />.</para>
+ Lustre RPM packages. Instructions to install from source code are beyond
+ the scope of this document, and can be found elsewhere online.</para>
<para>The Lustre RPM packages have been tested on the Linux distributions
listed in the table below.</para>
<para>