boxes/pages/download.md

title	permalink	created_at	last_modified_at
Downloads	/download.html	1999-04-06	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).

Binaries

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Windows

• Option 1 - Using Chocolatey: Just type choco install boxes.portable
• Option 2 - Install from ZIP: [Download ZIP](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/releases/download/v{{ site.currentVersion }}/boxes-{{ site.currentVersion }}-intel-win32.zip), extract and put it somewhere on the PATH. Make sure to put boxes.exe and boxes.cfg in the same directory.

MacOS X

• Just type brew install boxes.\ This works for both 32bit and 64bit MacOS.

Linux

• Just type apt-get install boxes.\ This works for Debian and debian-based Linuxes, such as Ubuntu, including the Windows 10 Ubuntu Subsystem.

Miscellaneous

• The current [list of available box designs]({{ site.baseurl }}/box-designs.html)
• A [Vim syntax file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{{ site.github }}/master/boxes.vim){:target="_blank"} to enable the Vim editor to apply syntax highlighting to boxes config files

Sources

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

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