Quick Start

Install from Latest GitHub Release

Latest release page

Use prebuilt packages from the latest release.

Direct downloads:

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

Install guidance:

• Windows installer: run space-windows-setup.exe and follow the installer.
• Windows: extract space-windows.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.

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.