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Installation on GNU/Linux (or other Unix implementations)
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First of all, you need `cowsay` from your local repositories.
Obtain it from [here](http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez) if you wish to compile it yourself.
This is often sufficient, but if is not you may be missing one of the standard packages: [bash](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/), [coreutils](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/) or [sed](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/).
[Download](/erkin/ponysay/downloads) or clone the project.
In the terminal, `cd` into the ponysay directory and `./configure && make && make install`.
You make need to be super user to run `make install`, on most systems this
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Read the PDF or info manual for more information.
Installation on Microsoft™ Windows®
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### Required runtime dependencies
`bash`: bash is used in a minor part of the program to make everything work, this will be removed later
`coreutils`: stty in coreutils used to determine size of the terminal, other parts of coreutils will not be needed for long
`cowsay`: this is a wrapper for cowsay
`coreutils`: stty in coreutils used to determine size of the terminal
`python>=3`: Written in python 3
### Package building dependencies
`gcc`: used for compiling truncater.c
`gzip`: used for compressing manuals
`gzip`: used for compressing manpages
`texinfo`: used for building info manual
`make`: required to run the make script