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This chapter explains how to install FindBugs.
The easiest way to install FindBugs is to download a binary distribution. Binary distributions are available in gzipped tar format and zip format. Once you have downloaded a binary distribution, extract it into a directory of your choice.
Extracting a gzipped tar format distribution:
$ gunzip -c findbugs-3.0.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
Extracting a zip format distribution:
C:\Software>unzip findbugs-3.0.1.zip
Usually, extracting a binary distribution will create a directory ending in
findbugs-3.0.1. For example, if you extracted
the binary distribution from the C:\Software
directory, then the FindBugs software will be extracted into the directory
C:\Software\findbugs-3.0.1.
This directory is the FindBugs home directory. We'll refer to it as
$FINDBUGS_HOME (or %FINDBUGS_HOME% for Windows) throughout this manual.