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+NSPR
+====
+
+**Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)** provides a platform-neutral API for
+system level and libc-like functions. The API is used in the Mozilla
+clients, many of Red Hat's and Oracle's server applications, and other
+software offerings.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+:ref:`About NSPR`
+ This topic describes, in general terms, the goals of NSPR and a bit
+ about how it does it.
+:ref:`NSPR API Reference`
+ The reference describes each API public macro, structure and function
+ in the NSPR API.
+:ref:`NSPR build instructions`
+ How to checkout and build from source.
+:ref:`NSPR listing`
+ All NSPR pages
+
+.. _Getting_NSPR:
+
+Getting NSPR
+------------
+
+NSPR is available in various source and binary packages, depending on
+your platform:
+
+- **Windows:** Build the source package, using the :ref:`NSPR build
+ instructions`.
+- **Mac:** Install the `MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/>`__ *nspr*
+ package, or the `Homebrew <http://brew.sh>`__ *nspr* package.
+- **Ubuntu:** Install the *libnspr4-dev* package via ``apt-get.``
+- **Debian:** Install the *libnspr4-dev* package via ``apt-get``.
+- **openSUSE Linux:** Install one or more of the following via ``yast``
+ or ``zypper`` :
+
+ - *mozilla-nspr* : Binary libraries for your platform
+ - *mozilla-nspr-32bit* : Binary libraries needed to run 32-bit
+ programs on a 64-bit OS
+ - *mozilla-nspr-devel* : Files needed (in addition to the above
+ libraries) to compile programs using NSPR
+ - *mozilla-nspr-debuginfo* : Debug information (including build
+ symbols) for package *mozilla-nspr*
+ - *mozilla-nspr-debuginfo-32bit* : Debug information (including
+ build symbols) for package *mozilla-nspr-32bit*
+ - *mozilla-nspr-debugsource* : Debug sources for all of the above
+
+Community
+---------
+
+View Mozilla forums:
+
+- `Mailing list <https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-nspr>`__
+- `Newsgroup <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr>`__
+- `RSS
+ feed <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/feeds>`__
+
+.. _Related_Topics:
+
+Related Topics
+--------------
+
+- :ref:`Networking`, :ref:`Network Security Services (NSS)`