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Download Knowbot Software
The source code and documentation for the Knowbot Software can be downloaded from the Internet by following the link below. It can be used at no charge for research and educational purposes. Please read the Knowbot System Software License before downloading the software.
The software requires Unix, Python, ILU and optionally Tcl/Tk and a web server; for details, see the system requirements page or the list of download points for additional software below.
The downloadable archive is a gzipped tar file of approximately 2 Megabytes containing Python source code, documentation in HTML form, and other miscellaneous files. There are no platform specific binary files in the archive; the Python interpreter for your platform will parse the provided source files on the fly.
Follow the following link to read the license and download the software:
When you have downloaded the Knowbot software, please take a minute to subscribe to our mailing list for announcements.
Download Additional Required Software
The archive above only contains the Knowbot software developed at CNRI. The following links help you download other required software that you may or may not already have installed. (We assume you already have some version of Unix, e.g. Solaris or Linux.) Even if you have already installed the software listed below, you may want to check the installation instructions below to verify that you have configured them correctly.
- (required) Python 1.5.1 or newer
- (required) ILU 2.0alpha12 or newer. Make sure to apply the patches supplied by the ILU developers too.
- (optional) Tcl/Tk 8.0 or newer
- (optional) Apache web server
Configure and Build the Software
Instructions for the installation and configuration of the Knowbot software as well as for the other software listed above are given in the documentation.
Documentation
You can browse the documentation for the Knowbot software online, by following this link. The documentation is also contained in the downloadable archive above. If you have downloaded the software, you can point your browser there for faster access.