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1st Step: Agree With License
If you download the software, you must agree to the applications GPL-based license.
2nd Step: Install Java
To run YaCy, you need an installation and/or support for Java2.
You can download the Java Runtime Environment "JRE" from the Sun Microsystems Java Page
3rd Step: Download YaCy
The Release comes in different flavours: a general one with application wrappers for Unix/Linux, Macintosh OS X and Windows, and a specialized Windows version with Windows installer. Please choose from either one.
Latest Release:
The latest YaCy release version is 0.45
Nightly builds from compiles out of SVN can be obtained from http://latest.yacy-forum.de/.
Main releases of YaCy are hosted on yacy.net, yacy@BerliOS.de and yacy@freshmeat.net.
Download Mirrors and YaCy Flavours:
- Generic release of YaCy (all platforms with J2SE 1.4.2: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris):
- Windows-flavour release of YaCy (same code as generic release, but with convenient Windows-Installer):
4th Step: Proceed With Installation
Please go to the installation page.
If you upgrade from a previous version of YaCy, please migrate your data
(simply move the DATA directory to your new application directory).
Final Step: Your Contribution is Appreciated
Open-Source/Freeware needs your contribution!
Even if you are a non-programmer or first-time user of this software, you can help to
- improve and extend functionality,
- security,
- ease-of-use and
- usability
of this distribution by
- giving feed-back,
- report bugs,
- suggest new functions or
- even get your hands on the source code or documentation.
When you find a bug, please help to further improve the application by sending me a bug-report.
The report should describe a complete set of actions that are necessary to reproduce the error.
Please contact me here. Thank you!
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