guardctrl.md

@@ -8,20 +8,7 @@ Under the hood each guardian process is handled by a systemd templated service u
 
 This section describes how to setup a computer as a guardctrl host. 
 
-### install packages
-
-The `guardctrl` package is available through the [LIGO Debian apt archives](http://apt.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/debian/).
-```shell
-$ wget http://software.ligo.org/lscsoft/debian/pool/contrib/l/lscsoft-archive-keyring/lscsoft-archive-keyring_2016.06.20-2_all.deb
-$ wget https://apt.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/debian/pool/stretch/cdssoft-release-stretch/cdssoft-release-stretch_1.3.0_all.deb
-$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
-$ sudo apt-get update
-```
-Once that archive is enabled the package can be installed directly:
-```shell
-$ sudo apt install guardian guardctrl
-```
-guardctrl will install the command line interface, as well as all the needed systemd service unit files.
+Before continuing, make sure the `guardian` and `guardctrl` packages are install on the machine, either through conda or local package management.
 
 ### creating and configuring the guardctrl user