This project is only supported under Mac or Ununtu operating system.
The following software packages are required for your operating system.
Open a terminal, go to the directory where you save the source code, and run
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-release.git
Normally, Mac or Ubuntu will have some the packages installed by default. Suppose $OPENWHISK_RELEASE is the home directory of openwhisk release on your local machine. You can run the script install_dependencies.sh under the folder tools to install the software packages:
$ cd $OPENWHISK_RELEASE/tools $ ./install_dependencies.sh
For some old versions of Ubuntu, you probably need to run sudo apt-get update before running the script to install dependencies.