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Installing the Spring Boot CLI

The Spring community provides several ways to install the Spring Boot CLI. Let's see the following ways:

Manually installing from a downloaded distribution
Installation with SDKMAN!
Installing with OSX Homebrew
MacPorts installation
Command-line completion

Let's look at each installation option. But we'll start with how you can install the Spring Boot CLI manually from a distribution.

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