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There's an installation guide for running a JIRA Server under Windows or Linux / Mac ( see Installing JIRA applications) For local testing there's an SDK, which starts a JIRA test instance and can be used to develop JIRA Plugins (see Set up the Atlassian Plugin SDK and Build a Project)

The easiest way to run a local JIRA instance, is to install the SDK and run atlas-run-standalone For further details see Starting a local JIRA test instance Please note that this runs a local test instance and is not meant for production.