# Installation Guide

### Overview of installation

There are two pieces to the installation of VisualAge Smalltalk: the library manager and the client. The library manager is the repository that holds all of your Smalltalk code. The client consists of visual programming tools and communication links to the server where the library manager is installed.

To install VisualAge Smalltalk in a team development environment, a system administrator should install the library manager on a network-attached server computer. The individual developers can then install the client code locally on their machine and connect to the library manager using EMSRV. When you install VisualAge Smalltalk this way you will be asked during installation to specify the name of the server and the location where the library manager is installed on the server.

If you are working independently of other developers you can install both the library manager and the client code on one machine, and connect from the client to the manager using file I/O access. This is also referred to as a standalone installation.

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