Read can be obtained either by downloading the GZipped tarball from the Downloads section, or as a repository via the Mercurial SCM system.

GZipped Tarball File Extraction

Prior to installation, extract the files from the GZipped tarball:

tar -zxvf read-X.Y.Z.B.tar.gz

X.Y.Z.B refers to the version number of Read being installed. The files will extract to a folder named read-X.Y.

Mercurial

To download the Read repository, clone it:

hg clone https://hg01.codeplex.com/readfile
cd readfile