From 9d1a14dea98736b590386566b5275ab08e2c0a3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Schuberth Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:08:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs(README): Update the installation from binaries section End-users should not downloads JARs from Maven Central, but use the distribution archives. Resolves #9749. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth --- README.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 059f7d45df351..ade3f05a52e97 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ If a package manager is not list listed there, support for it is integrated dire ## From binaries -Binary artifacts for releases are published to [Maven Central](https://central.sonatype.com/namespace/org.ossreviewtoolkit). +Head over to the [releases](https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort/releases) page. +From the "Assets" section of your chosen release, download the distribution archive of the desired type. +Typically that is `.zip` for Windows and `.tgz` otherwise; but the contents of the archives are the same. +The `ort-*` archives contain the [ORT main](./cli/) distribution, while the `orth-*` archives contain the [ORT helper](./helper-cli/) distribution. +Unpack the archive to an installation directory. +The scripts to run ORT are located at `bin/ort` and `bin\ort.bat`, or `bin/orth` and `bin\orth.bat`, respectively. ## From sources