boxes/pages/download.md

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title: Downloads
permalink: /download.html
created_at: 1999-04-06
last_modified_at: 2021-02-17 21:37:44 +0100
---

# Download *Boxes*

The current release is **version {{ site.currentVersion }}**. For older revisions, feel free to browse the
[release history]({{ site.baseurl }}/releases.html).


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   text="Binaries" %}

The best way to get *boxes* is via your package manager. Here are some package managers which we know have a
*boxes* package, but there are more - just try it on yours.

<table class="table table-striped w-auto">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th scope="col">Platform</th>
      <th scope="col">Tool</th>
      <th scope="col">Command</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr><td>Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)</td> <td>apt</td>   <td><code>apt-get install -y boxes</code></td></tr>
    <tr><td>Linux (Fedora)</td>         <td>dnf</td>   <td><code>dnf install boxes</code></td></tr>
    <tr><td>MacOS</td>                  <td>brew</td>  <td><code>brew install boxes</code></td></tr>
    <tr><td>Windows</td>                <td>choco</td> <td><code>choco install boxes.portable</code></td></tr>
  </tbody>
</table>


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   text="Windows Portable ZIP" %}

For Windows, we also have a portable ZIP which you can unpack somewhere in your `PATH`. Make sure to put boxes.exe and
boxes.cfg in the same directory. Get the ZIP file
[here](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/releases/download/v{{ site.currentVersion }}/boxes-{{
  site.currentVersion }}-intel-win32.zip).


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   text="Vim Syntax File" %}

We also have a [Vim syntax file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{{ site.github }}/master/boxes.vim){:target="_blank"}
which enables the Vim editor to apply syntax highlighting to *boxes* config files.


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   text="Sources" %}

The *boxes* sources are on GitHub, including previous releases ([build instructions]({{ site.baseurl }}/build.html)):

[https://github.com/{{ site.github }}](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}){:target="_blank"}