Installing

First, try your package manager. Pandoc is in the Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, Fedora, and gentoo repositories.

Install the Haskell platform, then use the cabal tool to get the latest release of pandoc:
```
cabal update
cabal install pandoc
```
This will download and compile pandoc and all of its dependencies. If you want syntax highlighting support, add the flag -fhighlighting. If you do not want to install the wrapper script markdown2pdf, add -f-wrappers.

If you are on OSX, you may encounter an error installing highlighting-kate:
```
ld: scattered reloc r_address too large
```
The workaround is this:
```
cabal install highlighting-kate --disable-library-for-ghci
cabal install pandoc -fhighlighting -f-wrappers
```
Alternatively, you can download the source tarball and follow the instructions in INSTALL.