If you are upgrading from one major version to another, be sure to checkout our Upgrade Guide for information relating to backwards compatibility breaks.

  1. Install Node.js & Other Dependencies

  2. Ensure NPM is the latest version

    npm install -g npm

  3. Install DocPad

    npm install -g docpad@6.38

  4. If you're upgrading, run this inside your project directory to ensure you get the latest plugin versions

    rm -Rf node_modules; npm install

  5. If you want operating system notifications, follow these additional instructions - ignore the install npm instructions as we already completed them earlier

If you get any errors, try running docpad anyway (most installation errors are non fatal and just for debugging purposes) - if you do get a fatal error then refer to our Troubleshooting Guide as it is probably easily fixed. :).

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