Manual:Huggle/Installation/en

Huggle is very easy to install. That's it! Huggle should be fully operational.
 * Step 1: Go to the download page and download the latest stable version for your operating system.
 * Step 2: Follow the instructions on download page in order to install Huggle

Windows
Huggle is distributed in 3 flavors for windows:
 * MSVC-32: Windows Vista and newer for 32-bit CPU
 * MSVC-64: Windows Vista and newer for 64-bit CPU
 * MinGW-32: All Windows versions for 32-bit CPU, may run slower than the MSVC versions

MacOS
Download the .dmg file from download page, open it and copy huggle to your Applications folder. Huggle should appear in the Launchpad immediately.

Linux
First, verify that Canonical's Snap is installed by typing snap in a terminal window. Then, follow the instructions below.

Debian and Linux distros without snap
If your Linux distro does not come with snap or if you prefer to build it manually, then you can compile it manually.

First, install the requried packages with APT.

Next, clone the repository with Git:

Finally, to build and install Huggle, run this script:

If you did this correctly, you should have a working install of Huggle! To start Huggle, type:

Ubuntu and Linux distributions with snap
On all linux distributions with snap preinstalled (such as Ubuntu 16.04 and newer), Huggle can be installed as easily as this:

sudo snap install huggle

It can also installed from Ubuntu software which is preinstalled in Ubuntu 16.04 and newer.