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FreeOrion is available as precompiled point releases for Windows XP, statically-linked Linux binaries, and a MacOSX universal binary. 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.

Point releases are built for 32-bit Windows, but have been reported to work on 64-bit systems after replacing the python25.dll in the FreeOrion directory with the Python 2.6 version (renamed python25.dll).

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 9.04 Jaunty, Debian Lenny, and may work on other distributions as well. Make sure you have OpenGL 2.0 or later, or you may 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 OSX

A universal binary is available from SourceForge in the v0.3.11 section. The MacOSX version is somewhat more up to date than the Linux or Windows v0.3.11, but is less up to date than v0.3.12.