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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:
Use wget to obtain the *.TAR.GZ file.
wget <URL of the file from downloads>

Windows:

Linux:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 763500777 (728M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `apache-ctakes-3.1.0-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.

No example

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-3.1.0

Linux:

/usr/local/apache-ctakes-3.1.0

Windows:

Linux:

tar -xvf apache-ctakes-3.1.0-bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local 

4. Download cTAKES 3.1 Dictionaries and modelsthe cTAKES resources ZIP file with a matching version from the ctakesresources project.(More information). These resources are required to operate cTAKES.

Unzip the files into a temporary location such as C:\temp.
Linux:
Obtain the URL of the version matching ZIP file from cTAKES resources , get the file, and unzip to file into a temporary location.

Windows:


Linux:

cd /tmp
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctakesresources/files/ctakes-resources-3.1.0.zip
sudo unzip ctakes-resources-3.1.0.zip

5. Copy (or move) the resources to cTAKES_HOME.
Copy the contents of the temporary resources directory (and all sub-directories) to <cTAKES_HOME>/resources.

Windows:

xcopy /s C:\temp\ctakes-resources-3.1.0\resources C:\apache-ctakes-3.1.0\resources

Linux:

cp -R /tmp/resources/* /usr/local/apache-ctakes-3.1.0/resources