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Combine the Quickstart content into one single section, and simplify the description.

Address #4746.

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conda install --channel conda-forge pygmt
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For other ways to install `pygmt`, see the [full installation instructions](https://www.pygmt.org/latest/install.html).

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Moved to the end so that users are not directed away from the PyGMT documentation too early.

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For other ways to install `pygmt`, see the [full installation instructions](https://www.pygmt.org/latest/install.html).

### Getting started
Then try the following example in a Python interpreter or Jupyter notebook. You should

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Remove the links to the Python interpreter and Jupyter Notebook, assuming that users already know how to run Python code. Users who do not know how to run Python code are also unlikely to be familiar with conda, so I think this is a reasonable assumption.

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