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In the tutorial install directions, mention that you may need to sudo make install
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Assuming you're on a relatively modern Linux system and have met the
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prerequisites, something along these lines should work:
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prerequisites, something along these lines should work. Building from source on
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Windows requires some extra steps: please see the
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[getting started][wiki-get-started] page on the Rust wiki.
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## notrust
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$ make && make install
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Building from source on windows requires some extra steps, please see
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the [getting started][wiki-get-started] page on the Rust wiki.
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You may need to use `sudo make install` if you do not normally have
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permission to modify the destination directory (either `/usr/local/bin`
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or the directory specified with to `configure` with `--prefix`).
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When complete, `make install` will place the following programs into
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`/usr/local/bin`:

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