There are two ways to get the source code:

• Download a source (CVS) snapshots, click here


• Connect directly to the CVS repository (cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/gnubg), click here

 

There are binary builds of GNU Backgammon for GNU/Linux available, both as RPM packages for SuSE and RedHat. Debian GNU/Linux packages will follow shortly.

All packages are signed by Achim Müller. You can find the PGP public key either here or at any keyserver.

The packages are built with 3d-support. They are also optimized for i686 computers with sse support:

Gnubg rpms for OpenSuSE-10.1
Gnubg rpms for RedHat Advanced Server 4

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GNU Backgammon (or gnubg for short) is a Free Software Backgammon playing program, licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL).

GNU Backgammon for MacOS X is a full binary version of gnubg, built for MacOS X, and available for download from this website.

This picture illustrates two new features: 3D boards and international support (here, French) [Read more]

You can get GNU Backgammon precompiled binaries for several systems. Thanks to our downstream maintainers - GNU Backgammon is available on a variety of the latest GNU/Linux based distributions including Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mageai, and Fedora. If you can't find packages for your distribution you can build from the sources available through CVS or a tarball. [Read more]