Getting Started
===============

``FlowCal`` requires the Python programming language. We recommend most Windows and OS X users to :doc:`install FlowCal with Anaconda<install_anaconda>`, a Python distribution that already includes many necessary Python packages. OSX already includes its own version of Python, but it does not include some Python tools that ``FlowCal`` requires. Therefore, Anaconda is recommended.

Users who have an existing python installation and are comfortable with command-line interfaces can :doc:`install FlowCal in their existing environment<install_python>`.

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   Download FlowCal! <https://github.com/taborlab/FlowCal/archive/master.zip>
   install_anaconda.rst
   install_python.rst