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Just want to try out uPortal? uPortal can be downloaded pre-packaged with Apache Tomcat, Apache Ant, and Maven. This installation option is best suited for evaluation purposes only.
GitHub
uPortal source is available for checkout via GitHub at https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal. Instructions on the GitHub workflow can be found at uPortal GitHub Overview. The suggested approach to obtain the source is to fork and clone the source from GitHub into a GitHub or BitBucket account rather than downloading a tarball of the source. Cloning the github repo allows a developer to make changes to source code and a site to manage pulling updates into their local, customized fork of the source repository that has site-specific configuration updates.
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