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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-09-16 15:05:12 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-09-16 15:05:12 -0400
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All the downloads above use https for security. For added security, see
[[verifying_downloads]].
-## Using cabal
+## Building it yourself
-As a haskell package, git-annex can be installed from source pretty easily
-[[using cabal|cabal]].
-
-## Installation from scratch
-
-This is not recommended, but if you really want to, see [[fromscratch]].
+git-annex is [[Free Software|license]], written in [Haskell](http://www.haskell.org/).
+Experienced users should not find it too hard to build and install
+it [[from source|fromsource]].
## See also
+
[[autobuild overview|builds]]