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title: Installation Overview
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## Requirements

Talk requires MongoDB and Redis.

- MongoDB ^3.2 - [Docs](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/)
- Redis ^3.2.5 - [Docs](https://redis.io/topics/quickstart)

## Installation method

While Talk can be installed in many ways, we support two install paths:

* [Install from Source](source) (development)
* [Install via Docker](docker) (deployment)

If you have success installing Talk in another way, please consider
[contributing to this documentation]({{ "/docs/faq/" | absolute_url }}#how-do-i-contribute-to-these-docs)!