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 system.</p>
 <section class="level4" id="linux--bsd">
 <h4>Linux / *BSD <a class="headerlink" href="#linux--bsd">&para;</a></h4>
-<p>First, make sure that <strong>python</strong> 3.8 or later
-(<strong>python</strong> &ge; 3.9 is recommended) and <strong>pip</strong>
+<p>First, make sure that <strong>python</strong> 3.5 or later
+(<strong>python</strong> &ge; 3.6 is recommended) and <strong>pip</strong>
 are installed. On most distributions it should be enough to install the
 package <code>python3-pip</code>.</p>
 <p>Then open a console and type:</p>