Now that you have installed Caffe, check out the [MNIST tutorial](gathered/examples/mnist.html) and the [reference ImageNet model tutorial](gathered/examples/imagenet.html).
-### Compilation using CMake (beta)
+### CMake Compilation
-In lieu of manually editing `Makefile.config` to tell Caffe where dependencies are located, Caffe also provides a CMake-based build system (currently in "beta").
-It requires CMake version >= 2.8.8.
+In lieu of manually editing `Makefile.config` to configure the build, Caffe offers an unofficial CMake build thanks to @Nerei, @akosiorek, and other members of the community.
+It requires CMake version >= 2.8.7.
The basic installation steps are as follows:
mkdir build
make all
make runtest
+See [PR #1667](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/pull/1667) for details.
+
#### Ubuntu 12.04
Note that in Ubuntu 12.04, Aptitude will install version CMake 2.8.7 by default, which is not supported by Caffe's CMake build (requires at least 2.8.8).