Reference:GeoGebra Mass Installation

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This page describes how a system administrator can install GeoGebra on many devices at once.

GeoGebra Desktop Software

Windows workstations

To install GeoGebra Desktop on many Windows computers in a network:

Note that GeoGebra will be automatically updating minor new versions (e.g. 4.4.0 to 4.4.1) by downloading the new version into the user’s Application Data folder and then using it after the next restart of the software. So, you will only need to do a new installation when you want to switch to a new major version (e.g. 4.4 to 5.0).

Mac OS X workstations

We provide two versions of GeoGebra for Mac OS X:

  1. A .zip package (about 60 MB), available on GeoGebra’s Download page.
  2. An official version provided by Apple at Mac App Store. This is preferred since this will be updated automatically on a workstation after Apple’s acceptance of a new release.

Both versions include Oracle Java 7. The App Store version may have some different look and behavior at the Load/Save dialogs because of running in sandboxed mode.

Linux workstations

GeoGebra is shipped in 5 different installers for Linux:

  1. 64/32 bit installers for .deb based systems (Debian, Ubuntu), about 56-58 MB.
  2. 64/32 bit installers for .rpm based systems (Red Hat, openSUSE), about 56-58 MB.
  3. Common portable bundle for 64 and 32 bit systems (about 95 MB).

All types of installers are directly available on GeoGebra’s Download page. All installers contain Oracle Java 7 bundled. The portable version contains both the 64 and 32 bit version of Oracle Java. By clicking on the download link on GeoGebra’s Download page the appropriate version will be served. If you need to download GeoGebra for a different platform, you can directly download it by the request http://www.geogebra.org/installers/deb.php?bit=... or http://www.geogebra.org/installers/rpm.php?bit=... where ... can be “64” or “32”. The .deb and .rpm installers will automatically add the official GeoGebra repository to the package management system on the workstation. This will enable automatic update of GeoGebra every time when a new version is released.

Providing GeoGebra in a Linux distribution

You may want to create your custom Linux distribution with GeoGebra included. The best way is to add the official GeoGebra repository (http://www.geogebra.net/linux/) to your package management system. The GPG key of the repository is at http://www.geogebra.net/linux/office@geogebra.org.gpg.key. The name of the package is geogebra44. This will conflict with the earlier versions, both 4.0 and 4.2, which are named geogebra and should be deleted first.

Other platforms

Currently no other platforms are supported. From version 4.4 GeoGebra uses some platform dependent libraries which are currently not available on other platforms than Windows 32/64 bit, Mac 64 bit and Linux 32/64 bit. We may add support for other architectures in future as well. es:Referencia:Instalaciones en masa

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