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== Introduction =={{man warn|Warning:|it is assumed that you know what you are doing. If you are trying to normally install stable GRAMPS version then see [[Installation]] page instead.}}
This page describes other possible ways of running GRAMPS without necessarily installing it the conventional way.
 
{{man warn|Warning:|it is assumed that you know what you are doing. If you are trying to normally install stable GRAMPS version then see [[Installation]] page instead.}}
The two alternatives to the conventional installation are:
== Running from the source directory ==
This is the strategy in which just a bare minimum gets installed globally, to enable gramps GRAMPS to start. The entirety of GRAMPS code will sit in your home directory, right where you downloaded it, and will run from there.
=== Bare minimum installation on Linux ===
./autogen.sh
Next, install the bare minimum files for GrampsGRAMPS.
''Note'': If you have a fairly recent stable GRAMPS version, you may be able to skip this step. If in doubt, try without it, and see if you get errors related to mime types or gconf schemas. If you do, you need to go through this part.
=== Bare minimum installation on Windows===
Fundamentally all you need to run GRAMPS on Windows is the const.py file which is generated from the template named const.py.in. During generation, the gramps GRAMPS version is placed in const.py. If you don't care about the version, you can just copy const.py.in to const.py. First, from a command prompt, cd into the directory where you downloaded or extraced the source files. Then, issue the following command:
copy src\const.py.in src\const.py
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