.. _getting_started:

Getting started
===============

Getting help
------------

Don't panic!

If you have problems downloading or installing plastimatch, 
please send an email to our mailing list.  We're friendly people.

  http://groups.google.com/group/plastimatch

Binary downloads (Windows)
--------------------------
Please see :ref:`windows_installation`.

Binary downloads (Linux)
------------------------
On Debian, you may invoke::

   sudo apt-get install plastimatch

Note that the version might be dated for stable distributions.

Compiling from source
---------------------
Please see :ref:`building_plastimatch`.
