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* Install the latest release with your OS package manager (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (TM), CentOS, Fedora, Debian, or Ubuntu).
* Install with ``pip`` (the Python package manager).
* Install from source to access the development (``devel``) version to use and test the latest features.
* Install from source to access the development (``devel``) version to develop or test the latest features.
..note::
You should only run Ansible from ``devel`` if you are actively developing content for Ansible. This is a rapidly changing source of code and can become unstable at any point.
Because Ansible runs so easily from source and does not require any installation of software on remote
machines, many users will actually track the development version.
Ansible creates new releases two to three times a year. Due to this short release cycle,
minor bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining backports on the stable branch.
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Running Ansible from source (devel)
-----------------------------------
..note::
You should only run Ansible from ``devel`` if you are actively developing content for Ansible. This is a rapidly changing source of code and can become unstable at any point.
Ansible is easy to run from source. You do not need ``root`` permissions
to use it and there is no software to actually install. No daemons
or database setup are required. Because of this, many users in our community use the
development version of Ansible all of the time so they can take advantage of new features
when they are implemented and easily contribute to the project. Because there is
nothing to install, following the development version is significantly easier than most
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