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Don't link to specific versions of rust in the book.
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They're forever doomed to be out-of-date. Also, don't assume the user is
installing a particular version.
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Stebalien authored and steveklabnik committed Jun 19, 2015
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[insecurity]: http://curlpipesh.tumblr.com

If you're on Windows, please download either the [32-bit installer][win32] or
the [64-bit installer][win64] and run it.
If you're on Windows, please download the appropriate [installer][install-page].

[win32]: https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-1.0.0-beta-i686-pc-windows-gnu.msi
[win64]: https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-1.0.0-beta-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.msi
[install-page]: http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html

## Uninstalling

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people who maintain Rust aren't going to hack your computer and do bad things.
That's a good instinct! If you're one of those people, please check out the
documentation on [building Rust from Source][from source], or [the official
binary downloads][install page].
binary downloads][install-page].

[from source]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust#building-from-source
[install page]: http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html

Oh, we should also mention the officially supported platforms:

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$ rustc --version
```

You should see the version number, commit hash, commit date and build date:
You should see the version number, commit hash, and commit date. If you just
installed version 1.0.0, you should see:

```bash
rustc 1.0.0-beta (9854143cb 2015-04-02) (built 2015-04-02)
rustc 1.0.0 (a59de37e9 2015-05-13)
```

If you did, Rust has been installed successfully! Congrats!
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