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+# Flow Test Autoconfig
+#
+# Script not meant to be run on personal machines (may break some configs)
+# Intended use case is a fresh sys (tested on ubuntu18.04desktop)
+# which can easily be run in a virtualbox VM.
+
+#
+# STATUS:  EXPERIMENTAL... not actually working...
+# testing with fedora39
+
+# Install and configure dependencies
+#sudo apt-key adv --keyserver "hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net" --recv-keys "0x6B73A36E6026DFCA"
+#sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ssc-hpc-chp-spc/metpx
+#sudo apt update
+#sudo apt upgrade
+
+sudo dnf install -y python3-setuptools python3-magic
+
+#sudo apt -y install metpx-libsr3c metpx-libsr3c-dev metpx-sr3c
+#sudo apt -y install metpx-libsr3c metpx-libsr3c-dev metpx-sr3c
+
+sudo dnf install -y erlang findutils git librabbitmq net-tools python3-pip rabbitmq-server 
+sudo dnf install -y wget 
+
+sudo dnf install -y python3-devel
+sudo dnf install -y rpmdevtools rpmlint
+
+#sudo dnf install xattr 
+#sudo dnf install openssh-client openssh-server 
+
+pip3 install -U pip
+pip3 install pyftpdlib paramiko net-tools
+
+# The dependencies that are installed using apt are only available to system default Python versions (e.g. Python 3.8 on Ubuntu 20.04)
+# If we are testing on a non-default Python version, we need to ensure these dependencies are still installed, so we use pip.
+# See issue #407, #445.
+for PKG in amqp appdirs dateparser watchdog netifaces humanize jsonpickle paho-mqtt psutil xattr rangehttpserver; do
+    PKG_INSTALLED="`pip3 list | grep ${PKG}`"
+    if [ "$?" == "0" ] ; then
+        echo "$PKG is already installed"
+    else
+        pip3 install ${PKG}
+    fi
+done
+
+# in case it was installed as a dependency.
+sudo apt -y remove metpx-sr3
+
+pip3 install -e .
+
+# Setup basic configs
+mkdir -p ~/.config/sarra ~/.config/sr3
+
+cat > ~/.config/sarra/default.conf << EOF
+expire 7h
+declare env FLOWBROKER=localhost
+declare env SFTPUSER=${USER}
+declare env TESTDOCROOT=${HOME}/sarra_devdocroot
+declare env MQP=amqp
+declare env several=3
+logEvents after_accept,after_work,on_housekeeping,post,after_post
+EOF
+cp ~/.config/sarra/default.conf ~/.config/sr3
+
+
+ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -hex 6)
+OTHER_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -hex 6)
+cat > ~/.config/sarra/credentials.conf << EOF
+amqp://bunnymaster:${ADMIN_PASSWORD}@localhost/
+amqp://tsource:${OTHER_PASSWORD}@localhost/
+amqp://tsub:${OTHER_PASSWORD}@localhost/
+amqp://tfeed:${OTHER_PASSWORD}@localhost/
+amqp://anonymous:${OTHER_PASSWORD}@localhost/
+amqps://anonymous:anonymous@dd.weather.gc.ca
+amqps://anonymous:anonymous@dd1.weather.gc.ca
+amqps://anonymous:anonymous@dd2.weather.gc.ca
+amqps://anonymous:anonymous@hpfx.collab.science.gc.ca
+ftp://anonymous:anonymous@localhost:2121/
+EOF
+cp ~/.config/sarra/credentials.conf ~/.config/sr3
+
+cat > ~/.config/sarra/admin.conf << EOF
+cluster localhost
+admin amqp://bunnymaster@localhost/
+feeder amqp://tfeed@localhost/
+declare source tsource
+declare subscriber tsub
+declare subscriber anonymous
+EOF
+cp ~/.config/sarra/admin.conf ~/.config/sr3
+
+echo
+
+check_wsl=$(ps --no-headers -o comm 1)
+
+# Manage RabbitMQ
+if [[ $(($check_wsl == "init" )) ]]; then
+	sudo service rabbitmq-server restart
+else
+	sudo systemctl restart rabbitmq-server
+fi
+sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
+
+sudo rabbitmqctl delete_user guest
+
+for USER_NAME in "bunnymaster" "tsource" "tsub" "tfeed" "anonymous"; do
+sudo rabbitmqctl delete_user ${USER_NAME}
+done
+
+sudo rabbitmqctl add_user bunnymaster ${ADMIN_PASSWORD}
+sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions bunnymaster ".*" ".*" ".*"
+sudo rabbitmqctl set_user_tags bunnymaster administrator
+
+echo
+
+if [[ $(($check_wsl == "init" )) ]]; then
+	sudo service rabbitmq-server restart
+else 
+	sudo systemctl restart rabbitmq-server
+fi
+
+cd /usr/local/bin
+sudo mv rabbitmqadmin rabbitmqadmin.1
+sudo wget http://localhost:15672/cli/rabbitmqadmin
+sudo chmod 755 rabbitmqadmin
+cd 
+
+echo
+
+# Configure users
+sr3 --users declare
+echo "dir: +${PWD}+"
+git clone https://github.com/MetPX/sr_insects
+