Dune.build doesn't have installation instructions

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Hi, I’m not sure if this is the best place to put this.

While dune.build front page is fairly nifty and compact and has all the key information that a person new to dune needs, including a little example of how to use dune. But, it doesn’t have an example of how to install it.

Nor do any of the 4 pages linked to in the menu bar.

On the top-right corner is a link to the github project, and half-way down the Readme we do find the installtion instructions - which are fairly straightforward and un-unexpected.

So I don’t this is a unsurmountable hurdle for any person who looking to use dune, but it would be nice if it was there right on the frontpage.

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After you’ve installed opam, you can do opam install dune in your shell.

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That’s great, but this should be mentioned in the documentation.

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Certainly, but I can’t find where the dune.build website is maintained.

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According to this repo’s docs it should be ocaml/dune-www.

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Thanks, I made a PR: https://github.com/ocaml/dune-www/pull/29

It turns out there is a page with installation instructions (https://dune.build/install), but it’s not easy to find.

Edit: The PR has been accepted and the website has been updated with the install link.

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