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1. On the cTAKES downloads page, download the User Installation package.

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

From the following directory, download the signature file that corresponds to your download from step 1

https://www.apache.org/dist/ctakes/ctakes-4.0.0/ 

 Please do not download any of the files that end with .zip or .gz directly from apache.org/dist - use the downloads page listed in step 1 if you need to download cTAKES itself so that a mirror can be used.

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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-4.0.0

Linux:

/usr/local/apache-ctakes-4.0.0

Windows:

Linux:

tar -xvf apache-ctakes-4.0.0.bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local 

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

Unzip the cTAKES resources file into a temporary location.

Windows:


Linux:

cd /tmp
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctakesresources/files/ctakes-resources-4.0.0.zip
sudo unzip ctakes-resources-4.0.0.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-4.0.0\resources C:\apache-ctakes-4.0.0\resources

Linux:

cp -R /tmp/resources/* /usr/local/apache-ctakes-4.0.0/resources

Mac OSX:

ditto /tmp/resources/* /usr/local/apache-ctakes-4.0.0/resources