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$ mkdir temp
$ cd temp
$ curl -O http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mcollective/mcollective-1.3.3.tgz
$ tar -xvzf mcollective-1.3.3.tgz
$ cd mcollective-1.3.3
$ cp etc/client.cfg.dist ~/.mcollective
# edit ~/.mcollective set libdir to /Users/rip/temp/mcollective-1.3.3/plugins and a few other bits like set plugin.yaml to /Users/rip/temp/mcollective-1.3.3/etc/facts.yaml.dist for a client its irrelevant just needs to be there
$ PATH=$PATH:/Users/rip/temp/mcollective-1.3.3/bin
$ export RUBYLIB=/Users/rip/temp/mcollective-1.3.3/lib
$ mco ping