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# Installing Vinyl Cache

With open source software, you can choose to install binary packages or compile it yourself from source code. To install a package or compile from source is a matter of personal taste. If you don’t know which method to choose, we recommend that you read this whole section and then choose the method you feel most comfortable with.

Unfortunately, something as basic as installing a piece of software is highly operating system specific:

- Installing on Debian/Ubuntu
- Installing on FreeBSD
  - From package
  - From ports
- Installing on OpenBSD
  - From package
  - From ports
- Installing on RedHat or CentOS

# Compiling Vinyl Cache from source

If there are no binary packages available for your system, or if you want to compile Vinyl Cache from source for other reasons:

- Compiling Vinyl Cache from source
  - Getting hold of the source
  - Build dependencies on FreeBSD
  - Build dependencies on Debian / Ubuntu
  - Build dependencies on Red Hat / CentOS
  - Build dependencies on macOS
  - Build dependencies on Alpine Linux
  - Build dependencies on a SmartOS Zone
  - Building on Solaris and other Solaris-ish OSes
  - Known issues on SmartOS
  - Compiling Vinyl Cache
  - Installing

# Other pre-built Vinyl Cache packages

We will update this as things appear after the name change.