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Obtaining and installing Jira

The first step is to download the latest stable release of Jira. You can download Atlassian Jira from http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download.

The Atlassian website will detect the operating system you are using and automatically suggest an installation package for you to download. If you intend to install Jira on a different operating system from the one you are currently on, make sure that you select the correct operating system package.

As we mentioned earlier, with Windows, there is a Windows installer package and a self-extracting archive package. For the purpose of this exercise, we will use the installer package (Windows 64-bit Installer):

Double-click on the downloaded installation file to start ...

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