Download Xena
The latest version of Xena is 4.2.1, released Monday 12th January 2009 AEST.
Quick Start
If you would like to install Xena immediately and don't require any help to do so, your Xena download is waiting for you at our Sourceforge download page. Simply click the image below:
Once you have Xena installed, be sure to read the built-in help to get everything set up properly.
Before you run Xena, you will need the following installed:
If you would like some further instructions for obtaining and installing Xena, read on for details designed for Windows and for Linux users.
Instructions - Windows
Before downloading
Xena is a Java application that requires a copy of Sun's Java Runtime Environment version 1.6.0 or greater in order to run.
To check what version of Java is installed on a Windows PC:
- Click the 'Start' menu
- Click on 'Run'
- Type 'cmd'
- Click 'OK', and;
At the command prompt, type:
java -version
If a short message containing a version number appears, check that the version is 1.6.0 or greater. If not, or if an error results, download and install a copy of the Java Runtime Environment from Java.com.
If Xena is to work with Microsoft Office documents, a copy of OpenOffice.org version 2.0 or greater must be installed. This may be freely downloaded from OpenOffice.org.
Note that both the Java and OpenOffice.org downloads are quite large and are best performed over a broadband Internet connection.
Downloading Xena
To download a copy of Xena, click on the link below:
Save the xena-4.2.1.zip file to somewhere you can find easily (perhaps C:\xena\). Note that the contents of xena-4.2.1.zip will be extracted to the same location as the file itself.
Use a file decompression tool such as Winzip or 7-zip to uncompress the xena-4.2.1.zip archive.
How to start Xena
The easiest way to start Xena is to open a file manager via Windows Explorer or 'My Computer' and navigate to the location of the unzipped xena-4.2.1.zip file (perhaps C:\xena\). Double click the xena.bat file to start Xena 4.2.
Or you may execute Xena from the command line with:
java -jar xena.jar
Instructions - Linux
Before downloading
Xena is a Java application that requires a copy of Sun's Java Runtime Environment version 1.6.0 or greater in order to run.
To check what version of Java is installed on a Linux computer, open a console and type:
java -version
Some Linux distributions are supplied with a Java Runtime Environment other than Sun's J2SE JRE. For example, Fedora Core contains the Free Software Foundation's GCJ. Xena works best with Sun's JRE, so if a non Sun JRE is installed then please download and install the Sun JRE as well. Don't forget to set the default Java Runtime Environment to Sun's if you are not specifying the full path to Java when running Xena.
Some Linux distributions have easy access to Sun Java via their package management system. For example, on Ubuntu Linux most users can install it by running:
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre
Otherwise, visit Java.com and select the appropriate download link on that page. Follow Sun's instructions to install the JRE.
If Xena is to work with Microsoft Office documents, a copy of OpenOffice.org version 2.0 or greater must be installed. This may be downloaded from OpenOffice.org or installed via your distribution's package mangement system.
Downloading Xena
To download a copy of Xena, click on the link below:
To unzip the xena-4.2.1.zip file, open a console, navigate to the location of the zip file and run:
unzip xena-4.2.1.zip
Note that the contents of xena-4.2.1.zip will be extracted to the same location as the file itself.
How to start Xena
To start Xena, open a console and navigate to the location of the unzipped xena-4.2.1 archive and run:
java -jar xena.jar
Or you may run the included shell script:
chmod +x *sh
./xena.sh
