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Dowload and unpack the source code
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You can either download the source code release of Tajo or check out the development codebase from Git.

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Download the latest source release
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Choose a download site from this list of `Apache Download Mirrors <http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tajo>`_.
Click on the suggested mirror link. This will take you to a mirror of Tajo Releases. 
Download the file that ends in .tar.gz to your local filesystem, e.g. tajo-x.y.z-src.tar.gz.

Decompress and untar your downloaded file and then change into the unpacked directory. ::

  tar xzvf tajo-x.y.z-src.tar.gz

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Check out the source code via Git
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The development codebase can also be downloaded from `the Apache git repository <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/tajo.git>`_ as follows: ::

  git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/tajo.git

A read-only git repository is also mirrored on `Github <https://github.com/apache/tajo>`_.