Downloading Leo — Leo 6.7.7 documentation

# Downloading Leo

There are two ways to download Leo:

- `pip install leo` will automatically download and install Leo, including all Leo’s dependencies, less a couple of non-essential things. See Installing Leo with pip.

- Recommended: install Leo using git, see Installing Leo with git. Git gives you the latest, thoroughly tested code with nothing missing.

- If you prefer a new development version and don’t want to use git download a Nightly snapshot.

## Snapshots

.zip snapshots can be downloaded directly from GitHub. No account is required. The downloaded file will have a name like:

    leo-editor-50c070b715b9fec50c31be5853055a0ebc72cad5.zip

where the `50c0...cad5` part is the ID or fingerprint of the version you’ve downloaded. Except “Latest”, which is just `leo-editor-master.zip`.

Here are direct download links for the “devel” branch, which changes frequently and contains all recent bug fixes:

> - Latest devel

> - devel: 1 day ago

> - devel: 2 days ago

> - devel: 5 days ago

> - devel: 10 days ago

> - devel: 30 days ago

> - devel: 90 days ago

Here are direct download links for the “master” branch, which rarely changes and contains the most stable code:

> - Latest master

> - master: 1 day ago

> - master: 2 days ago

> - master: 5 days ago

> - master: 10 days ago

> - master: 30 days ago

> - master: 90 days ago

## @ignore Standalone Leo.exe

Getting to the archive in order to download is a bit of work as there isn’t a stable url.

Getting to the latest leo.exe:

> 1. Navigate to Actions

> 2. Select Build standalone leo.exe from workflow list in the left table of contents

> 3. Look for a recent event with a check mark and click on it

> 4. Look for Artifacts heading and under it: leo-windows-exe in blue.

# Upgrading in place

> 1. Download source archive from Github repository, devel branch

> 2. Replace contents of `C:\Apps\leo\leo\*.*` with contents of `leo-editor\leo\*.*`. (Note: the nested “leoleo” folder structure is significant.)