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title: Spectrum 2

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## About our Docker image

The Docker image is based on latest stable Fedora. It includes Spectrum 2 and also lot of 3rd-party backends you would have to compile or install yourself when not using Docker image. This includes:

* Facebook (purple-facebook plugin)

* Whatsapp (transwhat backend)

* IRC (libcommuni backend)

* Skype (purple-skypeweb plugin)

* libpurple backend

## Install Docker

## Pull the Spectrum 2 Docker image

To download Spectrum 2 Docker image to your system, just run following command:

	$ docker pull spectrum2/spectrum

You can also update Spectrum 2 using this command later.

## Create directory for Spectrum 2 configuration files

Now you have to decide where to store the configuration files for Spectrum 2. We will use `/opt/spectrum2/configuration` in our example:

	$ mkdir -p /opt/spectrum2/configuration

## Create configuration file

You can use following default configuration files as a starting place:

* [XMPP Frontend - gateway mode](https://github.com/hanzz/spectrum2/blob/master/spectrum/src/sample2_gateway.cfg)

Download the configuration file you chose into `/opt/spectrum2/configuration` directory you have created earlier and edit it as you want. Check the documentation and tutorials for configuration examples.

Note that the configuration files must have `.cfg` file extension.