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@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ The global-workflow depends on the following prerequisities to be available on t
 * workload management platform / scheduler - LSF or SLURM
 * workflow manager - ROCOTO (https://github.com/christopherwharrop/rocoto)
 * modules - NCEPLIBS (various), esmf v8.0.0bs48, hdf5, intel/ips v18, impi v18, wgrib2, netcdf v4.7.0, hpss, gempak (see module files under /modulefiles for additional details)
-* manage_externals - A utility from ESMCI to checkout external dependencies. Manage_externals can be obtained at the following address and should be in the users PATH: https://github.com/ESMCI/manage_externals
 
 The global-workflow current supports the following machines:
 
@@ -18,20 +17,11 @@ The global-workflow current supports the following machines:
 
 ### 1. Check out components
 
-The global-workflow uses the manage_externals utility to handle checking out its components. The manic-v1.1.8 manage_externals tag is supported. The manage_externals utility will be replacing the current checkout.sh script.
-
-Run manage_externals (checkout_externals) while at top of clone:
-
+While in /sorc folder:
 ```
-$ checkout_externals -e Externals.cfg
+$ sh checkout.sh
 ```
 
-If checkout_externals is not in your $PATH then use full path to it:
-
-* WCOSS-Dell: /gpfs/dell2/emc/modeling/noscrub/emc.glopara/git/manage_externals/manic-v1.1.8/checkout_externals
-* WCOSS-Cray: /gpfs/hps3/emc/global/noscrub/emc.glopara/git/manage_externals/manic-v1.1.8/checkout_externals
-* Hera: /scratch1/NCEPDEV/global/glopara/git/manage_externals/manic-v1.1.8/checkout_externals
-
 ### 2. Build components
 
 While in /sorc folder: