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Expand Up @@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ You can check out the latest sources with the command (see

and navigate to the :file:`matplotlib` directory.

Installation is required before you can start hacking into the local fork.
Instructions to build from source can be found
`here <http://matplotlib.org/users/installing.html#installing-from-source>`.
Although installation is not necessary to contribute to documentation.

To make sure the tests run locally you must build against the correct version
of freetype. To configure the build system to fetch and build it either export
the env ``MPLLOCALFREETYPE`` as::
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