Downloading

The latest release of TangoCMS is available from the downloads page of the TangoCMS website (http://tangocms.org/download). In general, Linux and Mac users should download the .tar.gz archive, while Windows users should opt for the .zip.

Extracting TangoCMS

Linux Users

Assuming you have downloaded the recommended .tar.gz, open a terminal, navigate to the directory in which the archive resides and execute the following command:

tar -xzf TangoCMS_2.6.0.tar.gz

Once complete, a new directory will have been created containing TangoCMS.

You can also extract the archive using File Roller or your favorite archive manager. Once you have downloaded the archive, you can simply right-click on it and select 'Extract Here' to extract it to the current directory, or select 'Open with Archive Manager' for more options with extracting the files within.

Windows Users

Assuming you have downloaded the recommended .zip, double click on the downloaded archive to open it with Windows Explorer. On the left hand side bar, select 'Extract Files' and follow the wizard. Pay attention to the destination of the decompressed files, as you will need to be able to find them shortly.

Mac Users

Assuming you have downloaded the recommended .zip with Safari, the archive will have been automatically decompressed and you will find a directory containing TangoCMS in the Safari download location (Downloads is the default).

Alternatively

SVN

Alternatively, you can check-out the current version of TangoCMS from the subversion repository. The advantage of this method is it is very easy to keep up-to-date with any security fixes, and major releases by a simple SVN command 'svn up' or 'svn switch'.

To do this, execute the following command on either a local or remote Linux machine (you could use this to download TangoCMS directly to your web space, if you have SSH access):

svn checkout svn://tangocms.org/tangocms/tags/2.6.0/final/ tangocms

Once complete, you will find TangoCMS in a directory named 'tangocms' within the current directory.