Important Note
A release candidate for 2.86 is now available to fix some security issues (in particular, the ability to download the users.db file, and run scripts through the log file). You can download this, or a security patch for 2.85, from the snapshots page.
Latest Distribution (2.85)
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The main Greenstone download, suitible for most users. Includes everything you need to create and host Greenstone collections.
For Windows
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Greenstone-2.85-win32.exe (70.7MB)
This is the distribution you want if you're going to run Greenstone under recent 32 bit or 64 bit Windows environment (that is, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/2003/2008 etc.)
For Windows 95/98/Me/NT, please use the
2.80 release Greenstone can no longer be installed on 16 bit Windows (that is, Windows 3.1/3.11). However collections that have been exported to CD will still run on these systems.
Using this distribution both the web library and local library are installed (click
here for a description of the differences between the "local library" and the "web library"). GLI will use the local library by default. To get GLI to use the web library, rename server.exe in the Greenstone2 directory to something else.
This distribution includes everything you need to run Greenstone (including a pre-built demonstration collection) and to build new Greenstone collections. You can optionally choose to install ImageMagick (for Image processing) and GhostScript (for PostScript processing).
To install, simply download the file and double-click (see the
Release Notes for more detailed installation instructions).
The Windows release now includes an Apache web server in addition to the local library web server that was included in previous releases.
For MacOS
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Greenstone-2.85-MacOS-intel.dmg (44.2MB)
This distribution contains dynamically linked binaries built and tested on MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) running on the Intel platform.
It includes everything you need to run Greenstone (including a pre-built demonstration collection) and to build Greenstone collections. You can optionally choose to install ImageMagick (for Image processing) and GhostScript (for PostScript processing).
To install this distribution, download the dmg file, mount it and execute the installer bundle inside and follow the instructions. (For more detailed installation instructions, see the
Release Notes.)
For GNU/Linux
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Greenstone-2.85-linux (70.5MB)
This is the recommended distribution if you're installing Greenstone on any form of Unix or Linux (choose the 64 bit version for 64 bit OS architecture).
This distribution comes with statically linked linux binaries. For compiling on other Unix platforms, please download a source release.
This distribution includes everything you need to run Greenstone (including a pre-built demonstration collection) and to build new Greenstone collections. ImageMagick with JPEG2000 support is included, and can be optionally installed.
To install this distribution, download the file, make it executable and run it from the command line (see the
Release Notes for more detailed installation instructions).
Latest Source Distribution (2.85)
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The Source Distribution is a complete source distribution of Greenstone. The Sourcecode Top-up is used to add the source code to a binary distribution of Greenstone (above).
Source Distribution
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zip, 75.0MB) (
tar.gz, 71.7MB)
This is the complete source distribution of Greenstone. Download this if you wish to compile Greenstone yourself.
Sourcecode Top-up
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zip, 40.2MB) (
tar.gz, 38.8MB)
This contains just the source code, which can be added to a binary installation of Greenstone. Extract this zip/tar.gz file into the root of your Greenstone installation to add the source code (i.e., top your installation up with the source code). You can then recompile your installation of Greenstone.
Nightly Release Snapshots
Every night, Greenstone snapshot releases are automatically generated for Windows, Linux, and Mac. They are made available at our snapshots page.
GLI Client
The GLI Client for Greenstone versions 2.85 and 2.84 is included in the Greenstone installer. To use it, you would install Greenstone itself.
For those using the older Greenstone 2.83 release, you can download a separate package containing just the GLI client. This is a stand-alone GLI program that enables you to build collections on a remote server, without having Greenstone installed locally.
Greenstone3
Greenstone3 is a complete reimplementation of Greenstone, which does everything Greenstone2 does plus more. It is available for download at the Greenstone3 Homepage page.
Older Distributions
Please see the older distributions wiki page.
The following packages should help you learn more about Greenstone, and teach it to others.
Documented Examples
Greenstone collections whose "about" page describes how they are constructed; see here for details.
Documented Examples
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zip, 118MB) (
tar.gz, 71MB)
Tutorial Exercises
Tutorial exercises to teach you about many aspects of Greenstone, see here for details.
Teaching Material
Packages of material prepared for one-day, three-day and four-day Greenstone workshops; see here for details.
