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6 <h1>Download OpenRocket</h1>
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15 <h2>Ready packages</h2>
17 <p>These are packages ready for use and are the recommended
18 download for normal users. They are pre-packaged with motor
20 <a href="http://www.thrustcurve.org/">thrustcurve.org</a>.</p>
22 <p>OpenRocket requires <strong>Java version 6</strong> or
23 later. The Sun Java Runtime is recommended.</p>
25 <h3>Development release</h3>
27 <p>The development release contains the latest and greatest
28 features, but may contain more bugs than the stable version.
29 Currently the development version is the recommended
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39 <h3>Stable release</h3>
41 <p>Occasionally during OpenRocket development focus will shift
42 from feature development towards getting all open bugs fix and
43 to produce a stable release. No updates are made to the
44 stable branch except for possible bug fixes, so the stable
45 release has less features than the development release.</p>
47 <p>The current stable release is
49 href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/files/openrocket/${stableversion}/OpenRocket-${stableversion}.jar/download">OpenRocket-<use stableversion>.jar</a></tt></p>
52 <h3>Running OpenRocket</h3>
54 <p>OpenRocket can be started in most graphical environments (including
55 Windows) by double-clicking the package icon. No installation is
58 <p>From the command line OpenRocket can be started by
59 <span class="command">java -jar OpenRocket-<use version>.jar</span></p>
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64 <h2>Source code and older versions</h2>
66 <p><strong>Source packages</strong> and older versions of
67 OpenRocket are available in the
68 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/files/openrocket/">SourceForge repository</a>.</p>
70 <p>Alternatively, the most recent development version can be
72 <a href="http://openrocket.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openrocket/">SVN
73 repository</a>. It can be retrieved simply using the command</p>
74 <pre class="quote">$ svn co https://openrocket.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openrocket/trunk OpenRocket</pre>
75 <p>The above URL may be used to connect to the repository with
76 other Subversion clients as well.</p>