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### Installing Rust
# The Rust programming language
Source build
=========================
This is a compiler for Rust, including standard libraries, tools and
documentation.
## Installation
The Rust compiler is slightly unusual in that it is written in Rust and
therefore must be built by a precompiled "snapshot" version of itself (made in
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* gnu make 3.81 or later
* curl
Building and installing
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Assuming you're on a relatively modern Linux/OSX system and have met the
prerequisites, something along these lines should work:
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information on them.
More help
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## License
The tutorial is a good starting point:
Rust is primarily distributed under the terms of the MIT license, with
portions covered by various BSD-like licenses.
http://dl.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html
See LICENSE.txt for complete terms of copyright and redistribution.
## More help
The [tutorial](http://dl.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html) is a good
starting point.

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This is a compiler and suite of associated libraries and documentation for the
Rust programming language.
See LICENSE.txt for terms of copyright and redistribution.
See http://www.rust-lang.org for more information.