We need Fabric to be installed first. You can install Fabric using the Python packing tools, pip or easy_install, as shown in the following command. Fabric relies on the paramiko module, which will be installed automatically:

$ pip install fabric  

Currently the default Fabric does not seem to support Python 3. You may install fabric3 to fix this:

$ sudo pip install fabric3

Here, we will connect the remote host using the SSH protocol. So, it's necessary to run the SSH server on the remote end. If you like to test with your local machine (pretending to access as a remote machine), you may install the openssh server package locally. On a Debian/Ubuntu machine, this can be done with the package manager, apt-get, as shown in the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server