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 Setting Up a Development Environment
 ------------------------------------
 
-For general installation instructions have a look at the
-`Project Jupyter Installation Guide`__.
-
-__ https://jupyter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html
-
 Installing Node.js and npm
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^