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Dowload and unpack the source code of Apache Tajo
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You can get either the source code release of Apache Tajo or check out the development code base from Git.

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Dowload 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/incubator/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-0.8.0-incubating.tar.gz. 

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

  tar xzvf tajo-0.8.0-incubating.tar.gz

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Get 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>`_.

Once you have downloaded Tajo, follow the `getting started instructions <http://tajo.apache.org/tajo-0.8.0-doc.html#GettingStarted>`_, and take a look at the rest of the Tajo documentation.