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Link nightly builds in README

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**Note that Briar Desktop is still in a very early prototype stage and not yet functional.**
For regular updates, check out the Briar tag on
[Nico Alt's blog](https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/tags/briar/)
([RSS feed](https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/tags/briar/index.xml))
and watch the
[milestones of this repo](https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-desktop/-/milestones).
## Installation
We plan to distribute Briar for Debian (and related distributions) as _.deb_ and
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### Self-contained Java .jar
The simplest way is to download the nightly briar-desktop.jar and execute it from the command-line.
The simplest way is to
[download the nightly briar-desktop.jar](https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-desktop/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/briar-desktop.jar?job=build_jar)
and execute it from the command-line with
`java -jar briar-desktop.jar`.
Note that you need at least version 11 of the Java Runtime Environment.
**Note that this installation method isn't yet available.**
### Self-contained Debian package
```
wget https://media.dorfbrunnen.eu/briar/desktop/briar-desktop.jar
java -jar briar-desktop.jar
```
For Debian based Linux distributions, a
[self-contained .deb package](https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-desktop/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/briar-desktop.deb?job=build_deb)
is available that ships its own JRE.
## Developers
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