Downloading the source

If you want to compile Joxy yourself, you can get the source code of it in two ways. Firstly, up to (and including) Joxy 0.0.2 we included the source code in the released JAR files. If you unzip these (for example try opening it with Ark) you will see both .java and .class files. The .java files contain the source. This doesn't work for Joxy 0.0.3 or higher: to get the source code of these, please use the next method.

The second method is obtaining the source from our Git repository. You can access this repository by clicking Code above.

To use Git, you will need to have it installed on your computer. This can be done with the package manager of your distribution. For example, for Debian or Ubuntu, execute apt-get install git.
Note that you need to have administrator rights for this. On Ubuntu-like distributions, you can use

$ sudo apt-get install git

If you do not have sudo installed, use

$ su -
$ apt-get install git

Then you can create a folder to store the source code in, do this at a location you like, preferably not as the root user, for security reasons we do not recommend to run our code with root privileges

$ mkdir somename

At the Code page of this website, you can get a command to clone the repository to your local computer. At the moment of writing, this command is

$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/joxy/code somename

Where somename is the name of the directory to put the source in. Execute this command. Now the source code is available for you to compile in the folder you created.

To do: describe a way to get a certain Joxy version (revert to a tag)

You can continue with the compilation instructions at [Compiling the source].