The windows exe and debian release are executable files that will extract and install GroIMP on your computer. It will also provide you to create a menu entry and a shortcut. Mac users need to download the zip-file, extract it and run GroIMP from command line.

The directory structure of the zip-file has to be preserved, check that your zip program is set up accordingly (and does not extract all files into one and the same directory).

After extraction of the zip-file, the following files, among others, are present in the installation directory:

README

This plain text file contains additional information about the GroIMP distribution. Read it carefully.

INSTALL

This plain text file contains instructions for the installation of the GroIMP distribution, legal notices and other information. Read it carefully. If you have troubles with the installation procedure described in this manual, consult the file INSTALL a solution.

plugins

This directory contains all the plugins that are part of the binary distribution of GroIMP.

core.jar

This file is an executable java archive and the entry-point for the Java runtime environment to start the GroIMP application.