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# Installation

The Salt system setup is amazingly simple, as this is one of the central design goals of Salt.

See also

Installing Salt for development and contributing to the project.

## Dependencies

Salt should run on any Unix-like platform so long as the dependencies are met.

- Python 2.6 >= 2.6 <3.0
- ZeroMQ >= 2.1.9
- pyzmq >= 2.1.9 - ZeroMQ Python bindings
- PyCrypto - The Python cryptography toolkit
- msgpack-python - High-performance message interchange format
- YAML - Python YAML bindings

## Optional Dependencies

- Jinja2 - parsing Salt States (configurable in the master settings)
- gcc - dynamic Cython module compiling

## Platform-specific installation instructions

- Arch Linux
- Debian
- Ubuntu Installation
- Fedora & CentOS / Enterprise Linux
- FreeBSD
- Gentoo
- Windows
- Solaris

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