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Getting VDrift should follow getting the prerequisites. See [[Software requirements]].
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Getting VDrift enables VDrift to be build. See [[Compiling VDrift]].
 
 
 
Getting VDrift consists of getting its two major parts, the source code and the data. Both are described below.
 
 
 
= Latest Release =
 
 
 
VDrift releases are available on [http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdrift/ SourceForge]. It is recommended that users download the very latest release for their operating system.
 
 
 
== Version Numbering ==
 
 
 
Each release of VDrift has a version number corresponding to the date of release, in the '''YYYY-MM-DD''' format. The latest release will be have the version number closest to the current date.
 
 
 
== Operating Systems ==
 
 
 
Currently, downloadable releases are usually provided for [[:Category:Operating Systems:Linux|Linux]], [[:Category:Operating Systems:Mac OS X|Mac OS X]], and [[:Category:Operating Systems:Windows|Windows]]. The installer package for a given operating system will be marked as such in the SourceForge download system.
 
 
 
=== Linux ===
 
 
 
You can get the code from a source package for a particular version, or you can [[Getting the development version|get the development version]].
 
 
 
=== Source Package ===
 
 
 
[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137283 Download] the latest VDrift source package and unpack the archive.
 
tar jxvf vdrift-yyyy-mm-dd-src.tar.bz2
 
 
 
=== Windows ===
 
=== Mac OS ===
 
 
 
= Development Version =
 
 
 
VDrift's code is kept in a Git repository on GitHub. To get the development version, you must "check out" the code from this repository.
 
 
 
==Browsing the repositories==
 
VDrift's source on the GitHub web site is at https://github.com/VDrift/vdrift/. Here you may browse the VDrift repositories and even download single files. This is very useful for examining changes between different revisions, in a user-friendly manner.
 
 
 
==Checking out the code==
 
If you want to do much work on VDrift you'll need to check out an copy of the source code and your platform's dependencies.
 
 
 
===Linux/Unix===
 
Install a git client (eg. [http://git-scm.com/ Git]). If you are using a Linux distribution you can search for it in the package manager. When you have installed it you need to open a terminal and run the following code:
 
git clone git://github.com/VDrift/vdrift.git vdrift
 
It will download the current development version in the subfolder ''vdrift''. Next, [[Getting_the_development_version#Checking_out_the_data|check out the data]].
 
 
 
===Windows===
 
The best solution for Windows is to download [http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ MSysGit]. After installing it, open Windows Explorer and go to the directory to which you want to download the VDrift source code. Right-click and click Git GUI Here. Select Open Existing Repository. In the next screen you need to fill in the URL of the repository which is git://github.com/VDrift/vdrift.git. Simply click OK, and the source code will be downloaded. Then do the same, but with the URL git://github.com/VDrift/vdrift-win.git and make sure that it downloads in a ''/vdrift-win'' directory in the main vdrift directory. Next, [[Getting_the_development_version#Checking_out_the_data|check out the data]].
 
 
 
===Mac OS X===
 
First you will need to obtain a git client (eg. [http://mac.github.com/ GitHub for Mac]). Once you have a working Git client open a terminal and navigate to where you wish to download the VDrift source code. Then run the following code:
 
git clone git://github.com/VDrift/vdrift.git vdrift
 
to download the lastest source code to the subfolder ''vdrift''. Then navigate to the ''vdrift'' folder:
 
cd vdrift
 
and download the mac dependencies into the subfolder ''vdrift-mac'':
 
git clone git://github.com/VDrift/vdrift-mac.git vdrift-mac
 
Finally [[Getting_the_development_version#Checking_out_the_data|check out the data]].
 
 
 
==Checking out the data==
 
The data set is currently only available from the SourceForge SVN (https://vdrift.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vdrift/vdrift-data). It needs to be checked out in a ''/data'' directory in the main vdrift directory. If you are using a command-line SVN client and have the VDrift repository checked out in a directory called ''/home/user/vdrift'', you would do this:
 
cd /home/user/vdrift
 
svn co https://vdrift.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vdrift/vdrift-data data
 
 
 
VDrift's code is kept in a Git repository on GitHub. To get the development version, you must "check out" the code from this repository.
 
 
 
[[Category:Installation]]
 

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