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6 |(logo)|__ Getting Started
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15 .. Admonition:: Use the latest version of this Getting Started guide
17 The `Boost website version of this Getting Started guide`_ may
18 have undated information, such as the location of additional installers
19 or improved installation procedures, so you might want use that version
20 if you've got an Internet connection available.
22 .. _`Boost website version of this Getting Started guide`:
23 http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html
28 Welcome to the Boost libraries! By the time you've completed this
29 tutorial, you'll be at least somewhat comfortable with the contents
30 of a Boost distribution and how to go about using it.
35 This document is designed to be an *extremely* gentle introduction,
36 so we included a fair amount of material that may already be very
37 familiar to you. To keep things simple, we also left out some
38 information intermediate and advanced users will probably want. At
39 the end of this document, we'll refer you on to resources that can
40 help you pursue these topics further.
45 We use one typographic convention that might not be immediately
46 obvious: *italic* text in examples is meant as a descriptive
47 placeholder for something else, usually information that you'll
52 **$** echo "My name is *your name*\ "
54 Here you're expected to imagine replacing the text “your name” with
65 | **Next:** `Getting Started on Microsoft Windows`__
66 | **or:** `Getting Started on Unix variants (e.g. Linux, MacOS)`__