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title: <img src="/assets/images/spack-logo-white.svg" width="96"/> Spack
excerpt: A flexible package manager supporting multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
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# Welcome to Spack!

Spack is a package manager for
[supercomputers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer), Linux, and
macOS.  It makes installing scientific software easy.  Spack isn't tied
to a particular language; you can build a software stack in
[Python](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/basic_usage.html#extensions-python-support)
or R, link to libraries written in C, C++, or Fortran, and easily [swap
compilers](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html#compiler-configuration)
or target [specific
microarchitectures](https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/basic_usage.html#support-for-specific-microarchitectures).
Learn more [here](/about/).  {% endcapture %}

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