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- [Cygwin] Avoid building in home directories of Windows domain
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users or in paths with capital letters.
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2. Download/unpack the sources.
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2. Download/unpack or clone the sources.
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- Go to https://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html, select a mirror,
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and download the file :file:`sage-x.y.tar.gz`.
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$ cd sage-x.y/ # adapt x.y
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- [Git] Alternatively, clone the Sage git repository:
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- [Git] Alternatively, and required for Sage development, clone the Sage
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git repository:
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$ ORIG=https://github.com/sagemath/sage.git
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$ git clone -c core.symlinks=true --branch develop --tags $ORIG
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This will create the directory `sage`.
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This will create the directory `sage`. (See the section
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[Setting up git](https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/git_setup.html)
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and the following sections in the Sage Developer's Guide
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for more information.)
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Change into it and pick the branch you need, typically
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the latest development branch:

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