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<div><h1>getting started</h1>
<div><p>Macaulay2 is available from our web page <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/</a>. There you will find online documentation, the source code, and precompiled versions for MacOSX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and for various unix boxes.</p>
<p>After you or your system administrator has installed Macaulay2, use the information here to set up the emacs interface (the recommended way to run Macaulay2), bookmark the html documentation, and to try to run Macaulay2. </p>
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<div><h3>Menu</h3>
<ul><li><span><a href="_checking_spyour_sp__Macaulay2_spinstallation.html" title="and bookmarking the Macaulay2 documentation">checking your Macaulay2 installation</a> -- and bookmarking the Macaulay2 documentation</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_finding_spthe_sp__Macaulay2_spfiles.html" title="">finding the Macaulay2 files</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_teaching_sp__M2_sphow_spto_spfind_spits_spshared_splibraries.html" title="">teaching M2 how to find its shared libraries</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_teaching_spyour_spshell_sphow_spto_spfind_sp__M2.html" title="">teaching your shell how to find M2</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_moving_spor_spcopying_spthe_sp__Macaulay2_spfiles.html" title="">moving or copying the Macaulay2 files</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_running_sp__Macaulay2_spin_spa_spterminal_spwindow.html" title="">running Macaulay2 in a terminal window</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_using_sp__Macaulay2_spwith_spemacs.html" title="">using Macaulay2 with emacs</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_using_sp__Macaulay2_spwith_sp__Te__Xmacs.html" title="">using Macaulay2 with TeXmacs</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_a_spfirst_sp__Macaulay2_spsession.html" title="">a first Macaulay2 session</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_reading_spthe_spdocumentation.html" title="">reading the documentation</a></span></li>
<li><span><a href="_getting_sphelp_spor_spreporting_spbugs.html" title="">getting help or reporting bugs</a></span></li>
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