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<h3 class="section">3.3 Upgrading ASDF</h3>

<p>If your implementation already provides ASDF 3 or later (and it should),
but you want a more recent ASDF version than your implementation provides,
then you just need to ensure the more recent ASDF is installed in a configured path, like any other system.
We recommend you download an official tarball or checkout a release from git into
<samp>~/common-lisp/asdf/</samp>.
(see <a href="Configuring-ASDF-to-find-your-systems.html#Configuring-ASDF-to-find-your-systems">Configuring ASDF to find your systems</a>).
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<p>Once the source code for ASDF is installed,
you don&rsquo;t need any extra step to load it beyond the usual <code>(require &quot;asdf&quot;)</code>:
ASDF 3 will automatically look whether an updated version of itself is available
amongst the regularly configured systems, before it compiles anything else.
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<p>If your implementation fails to provide ASDF 3 or later,
see <a href="Replacing-your-implementation_0027s-ASDF.html#Replacing-your-implementation_0027s-ASDF">Replacing your implementation's ASDF</a>.
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