.. _inspire_installing:

Installing the INSPIRE extension
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The INSPIRE extension is a official extension available at `GeoServer download <http://geoserver.org/download>`_ pages (starting with GeoServer 2.3.2).

#. Download the inspire zip release file from the download page of your version of GeoServer

#. Extract the archive and copy the contents into the ``<GEOSERVER_ROOT>/WEB-INF/lib`` directory.

#. Restart GeoServer.

To verify that the extension was installed successfully, please see the next section on :ref:`inspire_using`.