Linux packages

If your distribution already includes dosbox-staging in its repository, then we recommend using that package:

Snap Store

Gentoo

# emerge games-emulation/dosbox-staging

Arch, Manjaro

Available via Arch User Repository (link).

NixOS

Available via Nix User Repository (instructions).

Others

This list might be incomplete. Lookup package on repology.org

Tarball download

Download dosbox-staging 0.75.1 (tar.xz)
sha256: aef22e5ddf93ff826fc2d48a4c8c0b4097d3455525b40be5b3fb443935929c70

Our pre-compiled builds run on most Linux distributions (x86_64 only for now). They depend on the following packages:

Fedora

sudo dnf install SDL2 SDL2_net opusfile

Ubuntu (18.04 or newer) and Debian (9 or newer)

sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-net-2.0-0 libopusfile0

Arch, Manjaro

sudo pacman -S sdl2 sdl2_net opusfile

Steam

You can easily configure your DOS games on Steam to use dosbox-staging via Boxtron (community-developed Steam Play compatibility tool for DOS games).

Boxtron will automatically use dosbox if found in your PATH or can be configured to use a specific binary by editing the file ~/.config/boxtron.conf and overriding dosbox.cmd:

cmd = ~/path-to-dosbox-staging/dosbox

Development snapshot builds

You can always see what's cooking on the master branch :)

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

§ Older builds

• dosbox-staging 0.75.0 (tar.xz)
  sha256: a28d8ba0481722c8343b7532299c7b9bb9e491c6832d9d05dd4704939287f776

• dosbox-staging 0.75.0-rc1 (tar.xz)
  sha256: 594ba45280af240cb18b3882f7ffa71169a697eb362b7d7a76c8ccda2b940e84

Building from source

Of course you can always build dosbox-staging straight from the source. Send us patches if you improve something! :)