{"id":623,"date":"2019-05-08T14:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/?page_id=623"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:42:28","slug":"installation-linux","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/installation-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WinStars <strong>3.0.310<\/strong> for GNU\/Linux, as an AppImage. The file online is named <code>WinStars-3.0.310-x86_64.AppImage<\/code> \u2014 152,8 MB, of 2026-10-29. Since that format replaced the MaintenanceTool, there is nothing left to install.<\/p>\n<h3>What is an AppImage?<\/h3>\n<p>AppImage is a standalone format: it bundles its own libraries to remain independent of system dependencies. Furthermore, no installation is required!<\/p>\n<h3>How to use it?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Clean up<\/strong>: delete your old version by using the MaintenanceTool one last time (located in <code>\/opt\/WinStars3<\/code> by default).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Download<\/strong>: get the AppImage file <code>WinStars-3.0.310-x86_64.AppImage<\/code><br \/>\n<a class=\"dl-button\" href=\"https:\/\/winstars.net\/files\/version3\/WinStars-3.0.310-x86_64.AppImage\">Download the x86_64 AppImage \u2014 152,8 MB, 2026-10-29<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Execution rights<\/strong>: before running it, grant the file execution permission \u2014 with the <code>chmod +x<\/code> command in the block below, or through the file manager: right\u2011click the file &gt; Properties &gt; Permissions &gt; check \u201cAllow executing file as program\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Launch<\/strong>: simply double\u2011click the file to start WinStars 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a terminal, the three steps, from the download to the launch:<\/p>\n<pre><code>wget https:\/\/winstars.net\/files\/version3\/WinStars-3.0.310-x86_64.AppImage\nchmod +x WinStars-3.0.310-x86_64.AppImage\n.\/WinStars-3.0.310-x86_64.AppImage<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The weight, the date and the SHA\u2011256 fingerprint of the file are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/download\/\">Download page<\/a>. The procedure for a Raspberry Pi is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/installation-on-raspberry-pi-4-400\/\">Raspberry Pi installation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The name, the weight, the date and the commands on this page are written by the site from the file actually present on the server: when the next version is published, they update all by themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WinStars for GNU\/Linux, as an AppImage. The file online is named \u2014 , of . Since that format replaced the MaintenanceTool, there is nothing left to install. What is an AppImage? AppImage is a standalone format: it bundles its own libraries to remain independent of system dependencies. Furthermore, no installation is required! How to use &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/installation-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Installation on Linux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-623","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winstars.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}