App/Setup/Installation

Download and unzip XOWA

• Download a package for your operating system from https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/ For example, if you're using Windows, you would download xowa_app_windows_v3.1.1.1.zip.
• Unzip to a folder. See the XOWA Folder section below for possible choices.
• When finished, you will have a file called readme.txt as well as many other files and directories.

Run XOWA

• On Windows, double-click C:\xowa\xowa.exe
• On Linux, open a terminal and run sh /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.sh

Note that the shell script is a wrapper for java -Xmx256m -jar /home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar

• On OS X, open a terminal and run sh /Users/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_macosx.sh

Note that the shell script is a wrapper for java -Xmx256m -d32 -XstartOnFirstThread -jar /Users/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_macosx.jar

XOWA folder

XOWA works from one folder. For the purpose of the instructions throughout this wiki, this folder will be referred to as /xowa/.

The table below lists recommended locations by operating system. Note that these are just recommendations: you can use any other folder on your hard drive (or on a flash memory card).

operating system	folder	path of xowa jar
Windows	C:\xowa\	C:\xowa\xowa_windows.jar
Linux	/home/Your_Name/xowa/	/home/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_linux.jar
OS X	/Users/Your_Name/xowa/	/Users/Your_Name/xowa/xowa_macosx.jar