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If you don't want to download manually via GitHub (expert approach), or via
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convenient Linux package respositories, the typical approach is download of a
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zip file (or tar.gz file). We provide "Source Code" zip or tar.gz files, which
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contain a given Psychtoolbox release, including the full source code. These are
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large, due to inclusion of the source code.
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zip file (or tar.gz file).
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More often you'll want to download the smaller zip file with the version number,
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for only the Psychtoolbox standard folder (ie. without source code), e.g.,
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something named like `3.0.20.0.zip`.
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Usually you'll want to download the zip file whose name is the version number,
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and with a little box symbol to its left, for only the Psychtoolbox standard
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folder (ie. without source code), e.g., for Psychtoolbox version 3.0.20.3, it
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would be named like `3.0.20.3.zip`. See the following screenshot for the location
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of the correct download link for the correct zip file for most users:
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The "Assets" section of each Psychtoolbox GitHub release contains the download links.
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![Screenshot of proper zip file download link](/images/ZipFileDownloadLink.png)
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The "Assets" section of each Psychtoolbox GitHub release contains these download links,
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as shown in the picture.
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[Click this link to go to the downloads page for all official releases.][PTBReleases]
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Then read on how to set up your manually downloaded copy of Psychtoolbox in the
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following section. This also applies to a manually git cloned Psychtoolbox.
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<small>We also provide "Source Code" zip or tar.gz files, which contain a given
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Psychtoolbox release, including the full source code. These are large, due
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to inclusion of the source code. This is usually not what you want, it is
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only useful for a developers that want to dig deep!</small>
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Installation without Download or after zip file or GitHub git download {#without-download}
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