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<h4>Requirements</h4>

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<div>CURL enabled</div>

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<h1>Installation</h1>

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<a class="pull-right btn btn-large btn-primary" href="/quickstart"><span class="btn-label">QuickStart Guide</span></a>

<h4>Follow QuickStart Guide to Install and execute your first test in 6 easy

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Alternatively you can choose one of the packages to install Codeception

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<h3>Phar (Recommended)</h3>

<a class="btn btn-large btn-success" href="/thanks"><span class="btn-label">Download Codeception</span></a>

<p>Grab Codeception phar executable</p>

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<code>wget http://codeception.com/codecept.phar .</code>

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<p>Prepare tests directory and configs</p>

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<code>php codecept.phar bootstrap</code>

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<h4>Composer</h4>

<p>Install a <a href="http://getcomposer.org">Composer</a> to your project's root</p>

<p>Run</p>

<code>php composer.phar require "codeception/codeception:@stable"</code>

<p>From now on Codeception (with installed PHPUnit) can be run as:</p>

<code>vendor/bin/codecept</code>

<p>Initialize your testing environment with</p>

<code>vendor/bin/codecept bootstrap</code>

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