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- <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Installing the distribution package</h1>
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- <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">The DITA-OT distribution package can be installed on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
- It contains everything that you need to run the toolkit except for Java.</p>
- <div class="section prereq p"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Before you begin</h2></div>
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- <li class="li">Ensure that you have Java JRE or JDK, version <span class="keyword">7</span> or later installed.
- <p class="p">You can download the Oracle JRE or JDK from <a class="xref" href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/" target="_blank">oracle.com/technetwork/java</a>.</p></li>
- <li class="li">If you want to generate HTML Help, ensure that you have HTML Help
- Workshop installed.
- <p class="p">You can download the Help Workshop from <a class="xref" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms669985%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" target="_blank">msdn.microsoft.com</a>.</p></li>
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- <div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="sectiontitle tasklabel">Procedure</h2></div><ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand">
- <span class="ph cmd">Download the <span class="ph filepath">dita-ot-<span class="keyword">2.3.3</span>.zip</span> package from the
- project website at <a class="xref" href="http://www.dita-ot.org/download" target="_blank">www.dita-ot.org</a>.</span>
- </li><li class="li step stepexpand">
- <span class="ph cmd">Extract the contents of the package to the directory where you want to install the DITA-OT.</span>
- </li><li class="li step stepexpand"><strong>Optional: </strong>
- <span class="ph cmd">Add the absolute path for the <span class="ph filepath">bin</span> directory to the <var class="keyword varname">PATH</var> system
- variable.</span>
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- <p class="p">This defines the necessary environment variable to run the <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command from the command
- line.</p>
- <div class="note tip note_tip"><span class="note__title tiptitle">Tip:</span> This step is recommended, as it allows the the <span class="keyword cmdname">dita</span> command to be run from
- any location on the file system and makes it easier to transform DITA content from any folder.</div>
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