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Protege Desktop 5.0 Beta Installation Instructions

Please refer to the specific installation instructions for your platform.

Windows

Protege Desktop 5.0 beta is distributed in the form of a ZIP file and requires Java 7.

If you already know that Java 7 is installed on your Windows machine, skip to next section on downloading the ZIP file.

If you check for Java 7 and determine that you don't have Java installed on your Windows machine, please refer to the Oracle Java website for download and installation instructions. After installing Java 7, proceed to the next section on downloading the ZIP file.

Check for Java 7

There are several possible ways to check your Java version on Windows.

From the Windows Start menu

• Click the Windows Start button.
• Type "Java" in the "Search programs and files" text box.
• Select "About Java" from the results listed under the "Programs" header:

Selecting About Java will display a dialog with your Java version:

From the Command Prompt

• Click the Windows Start button.
• Type "Command Prompt" in the "Search programs and files" text box.
• Select "Command Prompt" from the results list to launch the Command Prompt application.
• Type "java -version" at the prompt to view your Java version:

From the Java Control Panel

Detailed instructions for determining your version of Java via the Java Control Panel are available on the Oracle Java website.

Download the ZIP file

• Go to the Products page on the Protege website.
• Click the "Download for Windows" button to download the ZIP file to your machine.

Unzip Protege

Once the download completes, navigate to the folder where the ZIP file was downloaded. On a Windows machine, this will typically be your "Downloads" folder, e.g., "C:/Users/<your-username>/Downloads".

Right-click on the ZIP file and choose "Extract All..." from the context menu to launch the Extract Compressed Folders dialog. Click the Browse... button to select a destination for your Protege Desktop installation, e.g., the "C:/Program Files" folder:

Protege Desktop will be extracted to your selected destination into a folder called "Protege_5.0_beta":

Launch Protege

To launch Protege Desktop, double-click the run.bat file in the root directory of the installation.

For quicker access to Protege Desktop going forward, right-click on the run.bat file and select "Send to | Desktop (create shortcut)". This will create a shortcut to Protege Desktop's launcher on your Desktop called "run.bat - Shortcut". Select the shortcut and press the F2 key to rename the shortcut to something more user friendly, e.g., "Protege 5.0 beta".

Mac OS X

Protege 5.0 is distributed in the form of a ZIP file and requires Java 7.

Unix-like

Protege 5.0 is distributed in the form of a tar.gz file and requires Java 7.