2.1: Installing Pharo

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Downloading Pharo

Pharo is available as a free download from http://pharo.org/download. Click the button for your operating system to download the appropriate .zip file. For example, the full Pharo 5.0 distribution for OS X will be available at http://files.pharo.org/platform/Pharo5.0-mac.zip.

Once that file is unzipped, it will contain everything you need to run Pharo (this includes the VM, the image, and the sources, as explained below).

Using handy scripts. http://files.pharo.org/get/ offers a collection of scripts to download specific versions of Pharo. This is really handy to automate the process.
To download the latest 50 full system, use the following snippet.

wget -O- get.pharo.org/50+vm | bash

Installing Pharo

Pharo does not need to install anything in your system, as it’s perfectly capable of running standalone. Depending on your platform, download the appropriate zip file, uncompress it in a directory of your choice and now you are ready to launch Pharo. In case of Ubuntu Linux, there is also the extra option of installing Pharo via the Pharo PPA. Pharo can be also installed via the command line.