Downloading Leo¶

Leo’s core code is always being improved and developed. Unit-testing ensures that the daily commits are as bug-free as possible. Almost all of the time, downloading the most recent nightly snapshot of the development code is going to give you code that is just as stable and much more up-to-date than the most recent latest stable release which most Leonistas would consider already outdated.

If you are just checking Leo out, feel free to use the latest stable release download if it makes you feel more secure, but once you’ve decided to work with Leo on a regular basis, we highly recommend regularly keeping your installation up to date with the most recent nightly snapshot.

To summarize, you may get Leo in three ways:

1. Download the latest stable release from SourceForge. This release contains an executable installer. This release will usually be a bit out of date.
2. Download a nightly snapshot from Leo’s snapshots page. This page contains .zip archives of Leo’s code from 1, 2, 5, 10, 30 and 90 days ago.
3. Download Leo’s latest sources from Launchpad using bzr. Installing bzr is non-trivial, but once set up this is the easiest way to get the latest version of Leo’s code.