1<html><head> 2 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> 3 <title>Chapter 2. Installing FindBugs™</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FindBugs™ Manual"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="FindBugs™ Manual"><link rel="prev" href="introduction.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction"><link rel="next" href="building.html" title="Chapter 3. Building FindBugs™ from Source"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. Installing <span class="application">FindBugs</span>™</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="introduction.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="building.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 2. Installing FindBugs™"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="installing"></a>Chapter 2. Installing <span class="application">FindBugs</span>™</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="installing.html#d0e98">1. Extracting the Distribution</a></span></dt></dl></div><p> 4This chapter explains how to install <span class="application">FindBugs</span>. 5</p><div class="sect1" title="1. Extracting the Distribution"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d0e98"></a>1. Extracting the Distribution</h2></div></div></div><p> 6The easiest way to install <span class="application">FindBugs</span> is to download a binary distribution. 7Binary distributions are available in 8<a class="ulink" href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/findbugs/findbugs-2.0.3.tar.gz?download" target="_top">gzipped tar format</a> and 9<a class="ulink" href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/findbugs/findbugs-2.0.3.zip?download" target="_top">zip format</a>. 10Once you have downloaded a binary distribution, extract it into a directory of your choice. 11</p><p> 12Extracting a gzipped tar format distribution: 13</p><pre class="screen"> 14<code class="prompt">$ </code><span class="command"><strong>gunzip -c findbugs-2.0.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -</strong></span> 15</pre><p> 16</p><p> 17Extracting a zip format distribution: 18</p><pre class="screen"> 19<code class="prompt">C:\Software></code><span class="command"><strong>unzip findbugs-2.0.3.zip</strong></span> 20</pre><p> 21</p><p> 22Usually, extracting a binary distribution will create a directory ending in 23<code class="filename">findbugs-2.0.3</code>. For example, if you extracted 24the binary distribution from the <code class="filename">C:\Software</code> 25directory, then the <span class="application">FindBugs</span> software will be extracted into the directory 26<code class="filename">C:\Software\findbugs-2.0.3</code>. 27This directory is the <span class="application">FindBugs</span> home directory. We'll refer to it as 28<em class="replaceable"><code>$FINDBUGS_HOME</code></em> (or <em class="replaceable"><code>%FINDBUGS_HOME%</code></em> for Windows) throughout this manual. 29</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="introduction.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="building.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 1. Introduction </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 3. Building <span class="application">FindBugs</span>™ from Source</td></tr></table></div></body></html>