# Adding Admin Tab to Galaxy **URL:** \ **Category:** usegalaxy.org support\ **Tags:** devops-administration, usinggalaxy, devops\ **Created:** [August 9, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/adding-admin-tab-to-galaxy/4261 "2020-08-09T19:24:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![jennaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/jennaj/32/27_2.png) [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/adding-admin-tab-to-galaxy/4261/4 "2020-08-11T17:03:36Z")
Hi @sboba003, You must be the administrator of a Galaxy server in order to install tools. @dave was describing how to become an administrator of a local Galaxy installation. It sounds like you are using a public Galaxy server ([https://usegalaxy.org](https://usegalaxy.org)) – and you won’t have administrative privileges granted as a public end-user for any public Galaxy server. If you want to use alternative tools that are not currently hosted at a particular public Galaxy server, you can make a request. There may be a reason why a tool is not hosted or cannot be hosted publically at any particular site – or, maybe adding it is pending/in-progress. Or the tool may not be wrapped yet for Galaxy. Or, _it may be hosted at other public Galaxy servers already_ (domain-specific tools). What tool are you interested in that isn’t hosted at [usegalaxy.org](http://usegalaxy.org)? We can let you know why it isn’t hosted, and if it could be. The other option is to set up your own Galaxy and install/use the tool immediately. Check the Galaxy ToolShed to make sure the tool is available first. A local Galaxy is one choice, and there are many others that require less local resources (storage/compute) and overall administration. Example: the GVL version of Cloudman. More details: - **Galaxy Platform Directory** : [https://galaxyproject.org/use/](https://galaxyproject.org/use/) - **Galaxy Main ToolShed** : [https://usegalaxy.org/toolshed](https://usegalaxy.org/toolshed) Hope that helps! --- _[View the full topic](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/adding-admin-tab-to-galaxy/4261)._