## Installation and Updating

Cinderella is written in the Java programming language. On most computers the environment to run Java based software is pre-installed. This includes Mac OS X and most versions of Windows. On other operating systems, for example Linux, you might have to install a so-called Java Virtual Machine that is available for most platforms at http://www.java.com as a free download.
The Cinderella software itself is available as a free download from the Cinderella homepage. Depending on your platform you either download an installer or the application itself.

### Entering a License

Without further intervention, Cinderella will run with a built-in evaluation license or in demo mode, which means that the time for each run of the software and the number of elements that are saved is limited. In order to remove these restrictions you have to enter a valid license code. The license is available from the Cinderella homepage at "Buy a License".
Once you have a valid license code, run Cinderella and choose Help/Enter License... from the menu. Then copy and paste the complete license code into the dialog window that appears. Cinderella checks the license code for validity and, if it finds a valid license, it will offer to save this license to the user preferences.
As the license is stored in the user preferences (the file cinderella2-user.properties that is located either in the installation folder or, on Mac OS X, in the Library/Preferences folder, you can safely install a newer version of Cinderella whenever it is available without having to enter the license again.

### Network licenses

For network environments it is not convenient to have every user enter the license himself. Instead, it is possible to apply a license to the Cinderella installation as a whole, by copying the license key into a file called cinderella2-global.properties. This should be located in the same folder as the file cinderella2.properties, which contains the software's defaults. Usually, this is in the installation folder. On Mac OS X it is inside the application bundle: You can open the right location by ctrl-clicking on the application in Finder, selecting "Show Package Contents" and navigating to Contents/Resources.

### Updating Cinderella

We are continuously updating Cinderella.2 with new features and, if necessary, bug fixes. Please make sure to always use the latest version, which is available from the Download Cinderella.2 page at http://cinderella.de.

Page last modified on Thursday 08 of February, 2007 [08:14:47 UTC].
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