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FreeOrion is available as precompiled point releases for Windows XP, statically-linked Linux binaries, and as a disk image for MacOSX. The source code may also be downloaded and compiled for Linux, WinXP or MacOSX.

Windows XP and Vista

Point releases for 32-bit Windows XP or Windows Vista can be downloaded from SourceForge. Note that on Windows XP, The Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 (or later) are required to run FreeOrion.

The .NET Framework 2.0 can be installed by by running Windows Update, selecting "Custom", then "Optional, Software", then ".NET Framework 2.0". Alternatively, it may be downloaded from Microsoft directly. More recent .NET Framework versions should also work.

Windows Vista

FreeOrion point release installers for WinXP generally work on 32-bit Windows Vista without requiring additional downloads. 64-bit Vista might have problems, however.

Windows 2000

The Windows XP Freeorion v0.3.1-RC5 point release has been reported to run on Windows 2000. There's a good chance the latest WinXP release will as well.

Linux

Statically linked binaries are available in this forum thread, and may be avaialble from SourceForge for the latest FreeOrion point release. Generally the versions in the forum thread are more up-to-date, but numbered releases on SourceForge more closely match the content of the Windows releases.

These binaries have been tested on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, Debian Etch and OpenSuSE 10.2, and may work on other distributions as well. Several people have reported issues with Ubuntu 8.04. Make sure you have OpenGL 1.5 or later, or you will likely get segmentation faults.

RPM packages are available for FreeOrion v0.3.11 (SVN revision 2732) for Mandriva Linux. See this forum post for a link.

Mac OS X

A post RC6 (as of Nov 20. 2007) partially statically/dynamically linked universal binary of FreeOrion is available for download. It is bundled together with an installer for all the necessary shared libraries.

You can download the disk image here.

System versions prior to 10.4 (Tiger) are not supported at the moment.

It has been tested with Mac Os X Tiger 10.4.11 only so it can be that you will encounter problems running it with a different version. Should FreeOrion refuse to start up, have a look at this forum post. If it runs on your system without an problems and you have a version different from 10.4.11 or if it doesn't work at all then it would be nice if you could drop a note into this forum thread stating the exact version of Os X you're running and whether it is on Intel or PowerPC architecture.