What's in the Installation Manual
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What's in the Installation Manual
Use this guide to find system requirements, licensing information, and procedures for installing or migrating Splunk.
Note: If you want to install the Splunk universal forwarder, see the Distributed Deployment manual: "Universal forwarder deployment overview". Unlike Splunk heavy and light forwarders, which are just full Splunk instances with some features disabled, the universal forwarder is an entirely separate executable, with its own set of installation procedures. For an introduction to forwarders, see "About forwarding and receiving".
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.2 , 4.2.1 , 4.2.2 , 4.2.3 , 4.2.4 , 4.2.5 , 4.3 View the Article History for its revisions.
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