<p>Fossil is a single self-contained C program.  You need to
    either download a 
    <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">precompiled binary</a>
    or <a href="build.wiki">build it yourself</a> from sources.
    Install fossil by putting the fossil binary
    someplace on your PATH environment variable.</p>
    
    </blockquote>
    <a name="#fslclone"><h2>Cloning An Existing Repository</h2></a>
</blockquote><h2>Cloning An Existing Repository</h2><blockquote>
    <blockquote>

    <p>Most fossil operations interact with a repository that is on the
    local disk drive, not on a remote system.  Hence, before accessing
    a remote repository it is necessary to make a local copy of that
    repository.  Making a local copy of a remote repository is called
    "cloning".</p>