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additional subsections to make installation instructions less confusing
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meejah committed Jan 9, 2018
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INSTALLING
==========

There are three ways to install Tahoe-LAFS.

using OS packages
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Pre-packaged versions are available for several operating systems:

* Debian and Ubuntu users can ``apt-get install tahoe-lafs``
* NixOS, NetBSD (pkgsrc), ArchLinux, Slackware, and Gentoo have packages
available, see `OSPackages`_ for details
* `Mac`_ and Windows installers are in development.

via pip
^^^^^^^

If you don't use an OS package, you'll need Python 2.7 and `pip`_. You may
also need a C compiler, and the development headers for python, libffi, and
OpenSSL. On a Debian-like system, use ``apt-get install build-essential
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* ``pip install tahoe-lafs``

from source
^^^^^^^^^^^
To install from source (either so you can hack on it, or just to run
pre-release code), you should create a virtualenv and install into that:

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