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<task id="installing-client" xml:lang="en-US">
  <title>Installing DITA Open Toolkit</title>
  <titlealts>
    <navtitle>Installing DITA-OT</navtitle>
  </titlealts>
  <shortdesc id="what-is-client">The DITA-OT distribution package can be installed on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It
    contains everything that you need to run the toolkit except for Java.</shortdesc>
  <prolog>
    <metadata>
      <keywords>
        <indexterm>macOS<indexterm>installing DITA-OT</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>Linux<indexterm>installing DITA-OT</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>Windows<indexterm>installing DITA-OT</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm><cmdname>dita</cmdname> command<indexterm>installing</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>installing<indexterm>DITA-OT</indexterm></indexterm>
        <indexterm>Java<indexterm>Java Development Kit (JDK)</indexterm><indexterm>Java Runtime Environment (JRE)</indexterm></indexterm>
      </keywords>
    </metadata>
  </prolog>
  <taskbody>
    <prereq>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <p>Ensure that you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK).</p>
          <p conkeyref="reusable-components/java-clients"/></li>
        <li importance="optional" platform="windows">If you want to generate HTML Help, ensure that you have HTML Help
          Workshop installed.
          <p>You can download the Help Workshop from <xref keyref="download.html-help-workshop"/>.</p></li>
      </ul>
    </prereq>
    <steps>
      <step>
        <cmd><ph conref="../resources/conref-task.dita#ID/download-ot"/></cmd>
      </step>
      <step>
        <cmd>Extract the contents of the package to the directory where you want to install DITA-OT.</cmd>
      </step>
      <step importance="optional">
        <cmd>Add the absolute path for the <filepath>bin</filepath> directory to the <varname>PATH</varname> system
          variable.</cmd>
        <stepresult>
          <p>This defines the necessary environment variable to run the <cmdname>dita</cmdname> command from the command
            line.</p>
          <note type="tip">This step is recommended, as it allows the <cmdname>dita</cmdname> command to be run from any
            location on the file system and makes it easier to transform DITA content from any folder.</note>
        </stepresult>
      </step>
    </steps>
  </taskbody>
</task>