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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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35 <h3>Stable release</h3>
37 <p>Occasionally during OpenRocket development focus will shift
38 from feature development towards getting all open bugs fix and
39 to produce a stable release. No updates are made to the
40 stable branch except for possible bug fixes, so the stable
41 release has less features than the development release.</p>
43 <p>The current stable release is
45 href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/files/openrocket/${stableversion}/OpenRocket-${stableversion}.jar/download">OpenRocket-<use stableversion>.jar</a></tt></p>
48 <h3>Running OpenRocket</h3>
50 <p>OpenRocket can be started in most graphical environments (including
51 Windows) by double-clicking the package icon. No installation is
54 <p>From the command line OpenRocket can be started by
55 <span class="command">java -jar OpenRocket-<use version>.jar</span></p>
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60 <h2>Source code and older versions</h2>
62 <p><strong>Source packages</strong> and older versions of
63 OpenRocket are available in the
64 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/files/openrocket/">SourceForge repository</a>.</p>
66 <p>Alternatively, the most recent development version can be
68 <a href="http://openrocket.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openrocket/">SVN
69 repository</a>. It can be retrieved simply using the command</p>
70 <pre class="quote">$ svn co https://openrocket.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openrocket/trunk OpenRocket</pre>
71 <p>The above URL may be used to connect to the repository with
72 other Subversion clients as well.</p>