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SylvainCorlay committed Oct 3, 2019
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## Installation

xeus-cling has been packaged for the conda package manager on the **Linux** and **OS X** platforms. The build for the **Windows** platform made available on our channel is merely experimental.
xeus-cling has been packaged for the conda package manager on the **Linux** and **OS X** platforms. At the moment, we are not providing packages for the **Windows** platform.

To ensure that the installation works, it is preferable to install `xeus-cling` in a fresh conda environment. It is also needed to use a [miniconda](https://conda.io/miniconda.html) installation because with the full [anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com/) you may have a conflict with the `zeromq` library which is already installed in the anaconda distribution.

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```
conda create -n cling
conda activate cling # Or `source activate cling` for conda < 4.6
conda activate cling # Or `source activate cling` for conda < 4.6
```

Then you can install in this environment `xeus-cling` and its dependencies
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conda install xeus-cling -c conda-forge
```

The experimental build for the **Windows** platform is available on the QuantStack channel only:

```
conda install xeus-cling -c QuantStack
```

Or you can install it directly from the sources, if all the dependencies are already installed.

```bash
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