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1.2. Installation of the Binary Distribution
The binary distribution of GroIMP is available on the gitlab release section as a zip-file, windows exe, or debian release. The zip-file contains all necessary GroIMP files, they have to be extracted into an installation directory of your choice by a common zip programme. The directory structure of the zip-file has to be preserved, check that your zip programme is set up accordingly (and does not extract all files into one and the same directory).</p><p>After extraction of the zip-file, the following files, among others, are present in the installation directory:
`README`
This plain text file contains additional information about the GroIMP distribution. Read it carefully.
`INSTALL`
This plain text file contains instructions for the installation of the GroIMP distribution, legal notices and other information. Read it carefully. If you have troubles with the installation procedure described in this manual, consult the file `INSTALL` a solution.
`plugins`
This directory contains all the plugins that are part of the binary distribution of GroIMP.
`core.jar`
This file is an executable java archive and the entry-point for the Java runtime environment to start the GroIMP application. See Section 1.3, “Running GroIMP”.