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Download & Installation

LogViewer is distributed as a self-contained, multiplatform executable JAR. It runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Prerequisites

LogViewer requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 8 or higher:

java -version

If you do not have Java installed, you can download OpenJDK from Adoptium (Temurin) or install it via your OS package manager:

brew install openjdk

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y default-jre

Download and run the installer from Adoptium.

Standalone Executable JAR

No compilation is necessary. Simply download the latest release:

Launching the Application

Double-click the downloaded .jar file, or run it from your command line:

java -jar LogViewer-*-all.jar

You can also pass log files directly when launching:

java -jar LogViewer-*-all.jar bugreport.txt main.log

Building from Source

If you want to contribute or build the latest development snapshot:

  1. Clone the repository: 

    git clone https://github.com/tibagni/LogViewer.git
cd LogViewer

  2. Build the fat JAR using Gradle: 

    ./gradlew shadowJar

  3. The generated executable will be located in build/libs/LogViewer-<version>-all.jar.