Downloading and Building Fiji From Source

==== Cloning source as unknown contributor ====
Your first step should be to "clone" the fiji repository with the following command:

 git clone git://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/fiji.git

This should start downloading the base fiji repository and unpack it into a directory called "fiji" in your current directory.  Once this has successfully completed, change into the newly created "fiji" directory.

'''If this clone is slow''', you might want to try to clone from github.com, and after that switch back to the official repository:

 git clone git://github.com/dscho/fiji
 cd fiji
 git config remote.origin.url git://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/fiji.git
 git pull

If you are getting errors like this:

 github.com[0: 207.97.227.239]: errno=Connection timed out fatal: 
 unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)

then you probably are behind a firewall that does not let you connect to port 9418. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Do not panic], though, you might be able to clone the repository with

 git clone contrib@pacific.mpi-cbg.de:/srv/git/fiji.git

or

 git clone https://dscho@github.com/dscho/fiji.git