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All versions of Elemental are FREE and licensed as Fair Source. Elemental may be used in academic, non-commercial, and commercial applications in compliance with its license.

All versions of Elemental are FREE and licensed as Fair Source. Elemental may be used in academic, non-commercial, and commercial applications in compliance with its license.


NOTE You must have the required version of Java installed before installing Elemental. If you need to download and install Java we recommend BellSoft Liberica Java.


1. Recommended - Download and Run the Windows Installer

The installer is the easiest way to install and setup a single version of Elemental on Windows.

  • Elemental 7.0.0 - Installer (Requires Java 21)

    Download

  • Elemental 6.4.0 - Installer (Requires Java 8)

    Download
  1. Open a Command Prompt.
  2. Change to the directory where you downloaded Elemental:
    C:\> cd %USER_PROFILE%\Downloads
  3. Run the installer:
    ...\Downloads> java -jar elemental-installer-7.0.0.jar

2. or, Download and Unzip the Windows Distribution

If you wish to have multiple versions of Elemental installed, then instead of using the installer, you can simply download and unzip the Windows distribution to a location of your choice.

  • Elemental 7.0.0 - Windows Distribution (Requires Java 21)

    Download

  • Elemental 6.4.0 - Windows Distribution (Requires Java 8)

    Download
  1. Open your Command Prompt.
  2. Change to the directory where you unzipped Elemental:
    C:\> cd elemental-7.0.0
  3. To start Elemental, run startup.bat:
    C:\elemental-7.0.0> bin\startup.bat
NOTE: HAVING TROUBLE?

If you are having trouble launching Elemental, please see our article on Troubleshooting.

All versions of Elemental are FREE and licensed as Fair Source. Elemental may be used in academic, non-commercial, and commercial applications in compliance with its license.


NOTE You must have the required version of Java installed before installing Elemental. If you need to download and install Java we recommend BellSoft Liberica Java.


1. Recommended - Download Elemental DMG for macOS

The DMG (Apple Disk Image) is the easiest way to install and setup a single version of Elemental on macOS.

  • Elemental 7.0.0 - DMG (Requires Java 21)

    Download

  • Elemental 6.4.0 - DMG (Requires Java 8)

    Download
  1. In Finder, Double Click the downloaded DMG file to mount it.
  2. In Finder, open the mounted Elemental volume.
  3. Drag-and-drop the Elemental application into the Applications folder.
  4. Click the Elemental application icon from within Applications folder to start Elemental.

2. or, Download and Untar the Unix Distribution

If you wish to have multiple versions of Elemental installed, then instead of using the installer, you can simply download and unzip the Unix distribution to a location of your choice.

  • Elemental 7.0.0 - Unix Distribution (Requires Java 21)

    Download

  • Elemental 6.4.0 - Unix Distribution (Requires Java 8)

    Download
  1. Open the Terminal application.
  2. Change to the directory where you downloaded Elemental:
    $ cd ~/Downloads
  3. Untar Elemental:
    $ tar jxvf elemental-7.0.0-unix.tar.bz2
  4. Change into the Elemental directory:
    $ cd elemental-7.0.0
  5. To start Elemental, run startup.sh:
    $ bin/startup.sh
NOTE: HAVING TROUBLE?

If you are having trouble launching Elemental, please see our article on Troubleshooting.

All versions of Elemental are FREE and licensed as Fair Source. Elemental may be used in academic, non-commercial, and commercial applications in compliance with its license.


NOTE You must have the required version of Java installed before installing Elemental. If you need to download and install Java we recommend BellSoft Liberica Java.


1. Download and Untar the Unix Distribution

  • Elemental 7.0.0 - Unix Distribution (Requires Java 21)

    Download

  • Elemental 6.4.0 - Unix Distribution (Requires Java 8)

    Download
  1. Open a Terminal.
  2. Change to the directory where you downloaded Elemental:
    $ cd ~/Downloads
  3. Untar Elemental:
    $ tar jxvf elemental-7.0.0-unix.tar.bz2
  4. Change into the Elemental directory:
    $ cd elemental-7.0.0
  5. To start Elemental, run startup.sh:
    $ bin/startup.sh
NOTE: HAVING TROUBLE?

If you are having trouble launching Elemental, please see our article on Troubleshooting.

All versions of Elemental are FREE and licensed as Fair Source. Elemental may be used in academic, non-commercial, and commercial applications in compliance with its license.


1. Pull the Docker Image

All our Docker Images are produced for both amd64 and arm64 architectures and are published to Docker Hub under the evolvedbinary/elemental repository.


Our default Docker Images are minimal and stripped down for production use, if you require an image with a shell for testing or debugging purposes you can append -DEBUG to the Docker Tag.

  1. Open your terminal or command prompt.
  2. Pull the Docker Image
    $ docker pull evolvedbinary/elemental:latest

2. Create a Docker Volume for your Data

You only need to create the volume once.

  1. Open your terminal or command prompt.
  2. Create the Docker Volume:
    $ docker volume create my-elemental-db

3. Run an Elemental Docker Container

To run a container that uses your Docker Volume for the database data and exposes Elemental on port 8080

  1. Open your terminal or command prompt.
  2. Run a container:
    $ docker run -it \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    --mount type=volume,src=my-elemental-db,dst=/elemental/data \
    evolvedbinary/elemental:latest
NOTE: HAVING TROUBLE?

If you are having trouble launching Elemental, please see our article on Troubleshooting.

All Download Options

Below you can find all released distribution versions of Elemental for download.

VersionDatePlatforms
7.0.02025-04-26 Java Installer Zip Archive macOS Disk Image Linux / Unix Tar ArchiveDocker Image
6.4.02025-04-26 Java Installer Zip Archive macOS Disk Image Linux / Unix Tar ArchiveDocker Image