.. _installation:

Installation quick guide
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jMetalSP is a Maven project hosted in GitHub, so there are two ways of getting the software: adding it as a dependence in your own Maven project, or getting the source code from https://github.com/jMetal/jMetalSP.

The software requirements to use jMetal 6 are:

* Java 8 JDK 
* Maven
* R (optional)
* Latex (optional)
* Spark (optional)
* Kafka (optional)
* Flink (optional)

To work with the jMetalSP 2.1 version, just clone the repository in https://github.com/jMetal/jMetalSP and checkout the ``master`` branch.