To quickly install ArtiSynth from a precompiled release just to try it out:

• Quick Installation Guide

To install ArtiSynth (and the artisynth_models package) from GitHub into the Eclipse IDE:

• GitHub/Eclipse Installation for Windows (pdf)
• GitHub/Eclipse Installation for MacOS (pdf)
• GitHub/Eclipse Installation for Linux (pdf)

General installation guides covering precompiled releases, installation from GitHub, model development using Eclipse or the command line, integrating external models, and other topics:

• General Windows Installation (info|pdf)
• General MacOS Installation (info|pdf)
• General Linux Installation (info|pdf)

Note that the online documentation is kept (roughly) up-to-date for the current development version. For prepackaged releases, the documentation stored within the doc/html direction of the release itself should be more reliable.