Quick Start

Install from Latest GitHub Release

Latest release page

Use prebuilt packages from the latest release.

Direct downloads:

• Windows installer (.exe): space-windows-x86_64-setup.exe
• Windows (.zip): space-windows-x86_64.zip
• AppImage: space-linux-x86_64.AppImage
• Debian/Ubuntu (.deb): space-linux-amd64.deb
• Fedora/openSUSE Tumbleweed (.rpm): space-linux-x86_64.rpm
• Tarball (.tar.gz): space-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• Minimal AppImage: space-linux-x86_64-minimal.AppImage
• Minimal Debian/Ubuntu (.deb): space-linux-amd64-minimal.deb
• Minimal Fedora/openSUSE Tumbleweed (.rpm): space-linux-x86_64-minimal.rpm
• Minimal Tarball (.tar.gz): space-linux-x86_64-minimal.tar.gz

Install guidance:

• Windows installer: run space-windows-x86_64-setup.exe and follow the installer.
• Windows: extract space-windows-x86_64.zip and run space.exe.
• AppImage: mark executable and run it (chmod +x <file>.AppImage, then ./<file>.AppImage).
• Tarball: extract and run ./space.
• Debian/Ubuntu: install the downloaded .deb with sudo apt install ./space-*.deb (or sudo dpkg -i).
• Fedora/openSUSE Tumbleweed: install the downloaded .rpm with sudo dnf install ./space-*.rpm (or sudo rpm -i). The RPM does not declare automatic dependencies; install the runtime libraries below first.
• RHEL/Rocky/openSUSE Leap: use the AppImage for now; full-feature RPMs need runtime libraries that are not available from their default repositories.

Windows users should normally run space.exe from the installer, Start Menu, desktop shortcut, Explorer, or the extracted ZIP. Terminal and script users should use space-cli.exe for console behavior. GUI shortcuts can still launch alternate entries with space.exe -m some.gui.entry:main without opening a terminal window.

RPM runtime dependencies (install before running the RPM):

Fedora:

sudo dnf install bullet openal-soft libepoxy portaudio libvterm libnotify libcurl zeromq aubio xapian-core-libs rb_libtorrent ffmpeg-free libgccjit libsecret gdk-pixbuf2-modules

openSUSE Tumbleweed:

sudo zypper install libbullet3 libopenal1 libepoxy0 libportaudio2 libvterm0 libnotify4 libcurl4 libzmq5 libaubio5 libxapian30 libtorrent-rasterbar2_0 ffmpeg-7-libavcodec61 libgccjit0 libsecret-1-0 typelib-1_0-GdkPixbuf-2_0

Build from Source

See Building space for per-distro build dependencies and instructions.