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Author: MS <ms@taler.net>
Date:   Fri,  2 Oct 2020 16:10:00 +0200

more on nexus how-to

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 .. contents:: Table of Contents
 
+Obtain Nexus
+============
+Nexus can be downloaded via Git:
+``$ git clone git://git.taler.net/libeufin``
+
+Note that Kotlin+Gradle should already work on the host system.
+
 Install Nexus
 =============
+Navigate into the `libeufin` local repository, and from top-level run:
+``$ ./gradlew -Pprefix=$PREFIX nexus:installToPrefix``
+
+In case of success, Nexus can be run with the following command:
+``$ libeufin-nexus``
 
-Run Nexus without installation
-==============================
+..
+  Run Nexus without installation
+  ==============================
+  Navigate into the `libeufin` local repository, and from top-level run:
+  ``$ ./gradlew nexus:run --console=plain --args=serve [--db-name=<my-db>]``
 
 Connect Nexus with a EBICS account
 ==================================
+Nexus is a Web service that unifies banking protocols, like EBICS, under
+one JSON-based abstraction layer.  Therefore, "using Nexus" means having
+a running Nexus service that will receive the requests from another command
+line program that is as well offered along LibEuFin.
 
 Request history of transactions
 ===============================