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+Getting Started
+===============
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+In order to compile ``liboceanography`` you need:
+    * a C compiler;
+    * `cmake <http://www.cmake.org/>`_ 2.8 or greater.
+
+For compiling unit tests you also need `Check unit test framework for C
+<http://check.sourceforge.net/>`_.
+
+Download
+--------
+
+You can download a packaged version of ``liboceanography``
+from http://downloads.mornie.org/liboceanography
+
+Installing liboceanography
+--------------------------
+
+``liboceanography`` has a cmake based configuration system that handles
+build, test and installation.
+
+The following instructions are for **unix**  type systems.
+
+Once downloaded the tarball you have to do::
+
+    $ tar xzf liboceanography-1.0.0.tar.gz
+    $ cd liboceanography-1.0.0/
+    $ mkdir build
+    $ cmake ..
+    $ make
+    $ make test
+    $ make install
+