Time for action - downloading Mahara
1. Go to http://mahara.org. Click on the download button on the Mahara home page. The button will be labeled with the name of the current version of Mahara:
2. You will now see a web page that lists all the various versions of Mahara, both previous and forthcoming versions, in Alpha and Beta. Choose the most recent version from the list in the format you prefer. We recommend that you use the
.tar.gztype because it is faster to download than.zip.
4. You will be asked if you would like to open or save the file. Select Save File, and click OK.
5. That's all there is to it. Go to your Internet downloads folder. In there, you should see your newly downloaded Mahara package.
What Just Happened?
You have just taken your first step on the road to installing Mahara. We have seen the website we have to go to for downloading the most recent version and learned how to download the package in the format we prefer.
