# Installing glark on a Windows platform: How to?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-glark-on-a-windows-platform-how-to/69963>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 25, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-glark-on-a-windows-platform-how-to/69963 "2006-09-25T22:31:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![richard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@richard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/richard)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-glark-on-a-windows-platform-how-to/69963/1 "2006-09-25T22:31:56Z")

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Hi All,

I just discovered glark which offers search facilities I’d like to use.  
I want to use the option to download a tar file which I’ll open with  
WinZip. But I don’t know where I the Ruby hierarchy I should extract  
the the resulting files. Suggestions?

Source: [jpace (Jeff Pace) · GitHub](http://www.incava.org/projects/glark/tutorial.html)

Env.: WinXP-Pro/SP2, MySQL 5.0.15-nt, Ruby 1.8.2-15, Rails 1.1.4  
SciTE 1.59, FireFox 1.2.0.7, Java JDK 1.5.0\_06

Thanks in Advance,]  
Richard

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**Author:** ![richard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@richard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/richard)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-glark-on-a-windows-platform-how-to/69963/2 "2006-09-26T11:34:21Z")

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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Richard wrote:

> SciTE 1.59, FireFox 1.2.0.7, Java JDK 1.5.0\_06  
> Just unpack it anywhere, then copy the glark.rb to ruby’s bin directory.  
> C:\Ruby\bin

> Thanks in Advance,]  
> Richard

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**Author:** ![richard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@richard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/richard)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-glark-on-a-windows-platform-how-to/69963/3 "2006-09-27T05:52:02Z")

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Hi Hugh,

> Just unpack it anywhere, then copy the glark.rb to ruby’s bin directory.

Worked great!

Many Thanks,  
Richard