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Appendix A. Installing Neo4j server
TheinstructionsdetailedinthisappendixaregearedtowardinstallingNeo4jserverfromthe
compressed tar.gz (Mac/Unix) or zip (Windows) files.
Windows users are lucky enough to be the first recipients of the binary installer package,
with binary installers for Mac/Unix coming in due course. If you'd prefer to use the binary
Windows installer, please follow the instructions on the Neo4j website at http://neo4j.org/
download .
Neo4j versions and official documentation references
This topic targets Neo4j 2.0; unless specified differently in a particular discussion, Neo4j
2.0.1istheversionagainstwhichallcodewasrunandverified.Asyoucanappreciate,writ-
ing a book while trying to keep up with the latest version of a fast-moving product can be
challenging at the best of times. You should be able to substitute the latest version of Neo4j
for 2.0.1, provided there are no major breaking changes.
To ensure you always have links to the latest information, we have endeavored to use refer-
ences that point to the latest stable release ofthe official documentation. At the time ofwrit-
ing,allNeo4jdocumentation URLsfollowacommonpattern,namely http://docs.neo4j.org/
chunked/<version> where version is the Neo4j version of the docs you wish to view, with
stable being an alias that always points to the latest, most stable released version.
For the 2.0.1-specific information, please consult http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/2.0.1 . For
the latest stable release, consult http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable .
A.1. Installing and configuring a single Neo4j server
Follow these steps to install and configure a single Neo4j server: