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1. Navigate to the cTAKES downloads page on the Apache site and download the binary package. Select a mirror site and press the Change button to modify the URL to your desired mirror location before doing the download or accept the default.

Windows:
Download the ZIP file.
Linux:
Take the link for the file you want and use wget to obtain the *.TAR.GZ file.
wget <URL of the file>

Windows:

Linux:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 763500777 (728M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `apache-ctakes-3.0.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz'

13% [===========>                                     ] 106,548,331 1.13M/s eta 11m 9s

2. (Optional but recommended) Verify the downloaded files against a file signature to ensure you have the proper and complete file.

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3. Unzip the file you downloaded into a directory that you want to be the cTAKES install location. The compressed files contain a single directory at the top level. This folder we will call <cTAKES_HOME>. You will need to refer to this directory later.

Windows:

C:\apache-ctakes-3.0.0-incubating

Linux:

/usr/local/apache-ctakes-3.0.0-incubating

Windows:

Linux:

tar -xvf apache-ctakes-3.0.0-incubating-bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local 

4. Download UMLS and model resources...

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