== link:index.html[Index] -> link:basics.html[Getting started]

Download
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Cherokee can be downloaded from the Cherokee Web Server download site
or any of its mirrors. Some users of Cherokee on unix-like systems
will be better off downloading and compiling a source version. The
build process is easy, and it allows you to customize your server to
suit your needs.

Anyway, we provide binary packages for some operating systems and
GNU/Linux distributions:
	http://www.cherokee-project.com/downloads.html


If you know the URL of the cherokee sources that you would like to download,
for example, cherokee-x.y.z.tar.gz, you can just use the follow command:

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wget http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/x.y/x.y.z/cherokee-x.y.z.tar.gz \
-O - | gzip -dc - | tar xfv -
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The latest release is at your disposal with:

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wget http://www.cherokee-project.com/cherokee-latest-tarball -O -| tar zxvf -
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Finally, if you are a developer or simply want to test out the bleeding edge
version, you can access our Git repository. Be advised, this is the
development branch, so use it at your own risk!

To download simply use:

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git clone -b dev --recursive https://github.com/cherokee/webserver.git
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You can also download a package with the latest GIT contents:

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wget https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/tarball/dev -O - | tar zxvf -
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