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Linux releases

Current stable version

Download DOSBox Staging 0.82.1 (x86_64)
sha256: 0b7ca2e0f1fbc10fe51c05011f6cad72d10608658de0a58e22a5a936d5e7d075

Our official build runs on most desktop Linux distributions (x86_64 only for now). It only depends on the C/C++, ALSA, and OpenGL system libraries; all other libraries are statically linked.

Please run the install-icons.sh script included with the release to install the application icons.

Check out the 0.82.1 release notes to learn about the changes and improvements introduced in this release.

If you’re new to DOSBox Staging, we highly recommend following the Getting started guide.

Hardware requirements

From the x86 family of processors, a processor with SSSE3 (Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3) is required.

Non-official repackaged releases

DOSBox Staging is also repackaged by external teams as distribution-specific repository packages, containerised images, etc. These repackaged releases may have variations in configuration file locations, filesystem or network restrictions, feature exclusions, and other differences compared to our official tarball releases. They might also have bugs introduced by using different library versions than what we have tested out official releases with.

The DOSBox Staging team does not track or document these differences. For issues specific to these non-official packages, we recommend referring to the repository’s documentation, and when in doubt, please contact the respective repository owners.

Non-official releases and support

We only provide support for our official releases. Any number of weird issues can happen if you start using different library versions, different compilers, different compiler flags or revisions, etc. Many of these issues are hard to notice without being intimately familiar with our software and doing hundreds of hours of testing—the amount of testing we typically put into each release.

Therefore, if you believe you’ve found a bug, and you’re not using our official Linux release, the first thing to do is to re-test with that. Please only report issues that are reproducible using our official release! If the problem is only present in the non-official package, you should ask the person or team who did the repackaging for help.

Development snapshot builds

You can always see what’s cooking on the main branch! 😎 🍺

These snapshot builds might be slow or unstable as they are designed with developers and testers in mind.

Older releases

Building from source

Of course, you can always build DOSBox Staging straight from the source.

Send us patches if you improve something! 😄