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title: Set Up Your Solana Environment
description:
  Install the Solana tools and validate a working local development setup.
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## Lesson goal

Get a reliable local environment running so you can move from watching videos to
actually building on Solana.

## Checkpoints

- Install the core CLI and supporting development tools.
- Confirm your machine can run the expected local workflow.
- Capture any setup issues you need to fix before moving on.