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# 2.1 Installing MIDAS

Installing MIDAS is very simple: just create a separate directory for it, and decompress the distribution archive. MIDAS is normally distributed as one or several `.zip` files, and they all need to be decompressed in the same directory. If developing Win32 or Linux applications, use an unzip utility that handles long filenames, such as InfoZip unzip or WinZip, instead of MS-DOS pkunzip. Linux developers should decompress the files in Linux, as the archive may contain symbolic links for the Linux libraries.

Note! Make sure your unzip utility decompresses subdirectories correctly. InfoZip unzip and WinZip should do this by default, but pkunzip needs the ```-d`'' option to do this.