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The source distribution for ITK can be obtained in two ways:

# Official release tarballs
# Git SCM checkout.

== 1. Official Releases ==

=== Source code ===

* http://itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html

Note that the software must be compiled from source using CMake and your favorite C++ compiler.  The toolkit can be installed, but it is not necessary -- it can be used directly from its build directory.

=== Linux Package Distributions ===

==== Debian ====

  sudo apt-get install libinsighttoolkit4-dev

==== Ubuntu ====

  sudo apt-get install libinsighttoolkit4-dev

This will give you the libraries and development headers.

For information on other ITK packages and packages for other distributions, see [https://blog.kitware.com/itk-packages-in-linux-distributions/ this blog post].

== 2. Git ==

=== Development ===

   git clone https://itk.org/ITK.git

=== Latest Stable Release ===

   git clone -b release https://itk.org/ITK.git ITKLatestRelease

=== Previous Releases ===

You can get specific releases by using the tags,
for example:

   git  clone -b v4.10.0   https://itk.org/ITK.git   ITK-4.10.0



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