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+class Tachyon < Formula
+  homepage "http://tachyon-project.org/"
+  url "https://github.com/amplab/tachyon/releases/download/v0.6.0/tachyon-0.6.0-bin.tar.gz"
+  sha256 "53a9a893a7381d32fcea71f943b999453ee697c6604859a2d9dc07d9420947b2"
+
+  def install
+    libexec.install %w[bin client conf core libexec]
+    bin.write_exec_script Dir["#{libexec}/bin/*"]
+    doc.install Dir["docs/*"]
+
+    (etc/"tachyon").install libexec/"conf/tachyon-env.sh.template" => "tachyon-env.sh"
+    ln_sf "#{etc}/tachyon/tachyon-env.sh", "#{libexec}/conf/tachyon-env.sh"
+  end
+
+  test do
+    system bin/"tachyon", "version"
+  end
+
+  def caveats; <<-EOS.undent
+    To configure tachyon, edit
+      #{etc}/tacyon/tachyon-env.sh
+    EOS
+  end
+end