# Install licenses using the PDI client

To use Pentaho products, you must install enterprise licenses that can be verified by your organization's license server. You can install licenses using the PDI client.

Before installing licenses using PDI client, you must complete the following prerequisites:

* Obtain the URL for requesting a license from the license server. Your organization might use the Pentaho license server or a local license server.
* Download the PDI client to your environment.

Complete the following steps to install your licenses using the PDI client (also called Spoon).

1. Start the PDI client.

   See the **Pentaho Data Integration** document for more information about the PDI client. If no valid license for the PDI client exists, the Pentaho License Manager dialog box appears.
2. From within the Pentaho License Manager, click the add button (**+**) to open the Add License window.
3. Select the **License Server** option, enter either the cloud license server URL or the local license server URL, and then click **OK**.

   The URL for requesting a license from the local license server looks like the following example:

   ![](/files/Kik3QpVKpbjQRImdEGW8)

   **Note:** The **Activation Code** option is only for activating a trial license.
4. Review the license summary to see which components you are now entitled to use, and then click **Close**.

   ![](/files/sPI2BxNZG0EfXttzSBRv)


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