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 # Installation Guide
 
 
-### TL;DR
-While in the SeQuant source directory:
-* `cmake -B build -S .`
-* `cmake --build build --target check-sequant`
-
-### Prerequisites
-  * mandatory:
-    * CMake 3.27 or later
-    * a C++20 compiler
-    * [Boost](https://www.boost.org/). *SeQuant can download and build Boost if configured with `Boost_FETCH_IF_MISSING=ON`, but the use of Boost provided by the system package manager is recommended.* The following non-header-only Boost libraries are required, hence Boost must be configured/built:
-      - [Boost.Regex](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/regex/doc/html/index.html)
-      - [Boost.Locale](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/locale/doc/html/index.html)
-    * [Range-V3](https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3.git). *If not found, SeQuant will download and build Range-V3*
-    * [libPerm](https://github.com/Krzmbrzl/libPerm). *If not found, SeQuant will download and build libPerm*
-  * optional:
-    * for building coupled-cluster evaluation tests:
-      * [TiledArray](https://github.com/ValeevGroup/tiledarray.git)
-    * for building `stcc*` test programs
-        * [Eigen](http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/)
-
-Minimum required versions of prerequisites, including the versions of prerequisites installed from source, can be found in `external/versions.cmake`.
-
-### Configure
-
-From the SeQuant source directory run the following command to configure the build harness:
-* `cmake -B build -S .`
-
-#### Useful CMake variables
-  * [`BUILD_TESTING`](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CTest.html) --- enables unit tests targets, e.g. `check-sequant` [default=ON]
-  * [`CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER`](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER.html#variable:CMAKE_%3CLANG%3E_COMPILER) --- specifies the C++ compiler to use
-  * [`CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH`](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.html) --- this semicolon-separated list specifies search paths for dependencies (Boost, Range-V3, etc.)
-  * [`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX`](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.html) --- the installation path for SeQuant
-  * `SEQUANT_MIMALLOC` --- use [mimalloc](https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc) for fast memory allocation
-  * `SEQUANT_PYTHON` --- enables building of Python bindings
-  * `Boost_FETCH_IF_MISSING` --- if set to `ON`, SeQuant will download and build Boost if it is not found by `find_package(Boost ...)`; this is not recommended. [default=OFF]
-  * `SEQUANT_CONTEXT_MANIPULATION_THREADSAFE` --- set to `OFF` if you will initialize the default context and change its state from a single thread only (most users will want to do this). [default=ON]
-
-### Build
-
-To build, test, and install SeQuant, run the following commands:
-* `cmake --build build`
-* (optional) `cmake --build build --target check-sequant`
-* `cmake --build build --target install`
+See instructions [online](https://valeevgroup.github.io/SeQuant/user/getting_started/installing.html) or in [docs/](doc/user/getting_started/installing.rst)