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Installing aeternum

We currently support Windows 10 (and up) aswell as Linux!

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Like mentioned above MacOS support is unknown, we only provide a portable MacOS variant.

🪟 Windows 10+

There's multiple ways of installing aeternum on your Windows device.

The easist is with the aeterum installer.

Installer

Start of by downloading the latest aeternum-setup.exe.

The install setup works like every other installer.

  • Select the install method. You can either install it for all users or only for yourself.

  • Select the Language.

  • Accept the License.

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By accepting this license, you accept that we are not liability for anything you do with it and that we also don't give you warranty for anything.

  • Select where it should be installed.

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By default it'll install into C:\Program Files\aeternum

  • Wait. The installer will now extract all important files for aeternum to work, in the directory what you specified in step 4.

  • Done. Aeternum has finished installing and now can be used.

Portable

Start of by downloading the latest aeternum-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip.

  • Extract the contents. This can be done with the normal windows explorer (or any other third party zip program like 7-zip).

  • Open the folder. Open the folder with the extracted contents.

  • Run. Now you can open aeternum via the aeternum.exe.

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This is how you'll have to open it up everytime, if you would like it via the Windows Search or via a shortcut on your desktop then we recommend you use the installer method.

🐧 Linux

We recommend you using your package manager to install aeternum (if avaliable).

Package manager

The only official packages we provide are for Arch so the AUR, every other packages are provided by third-parties.

Bin

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For the arch package just use (we will use yay as an example here, replace yay if you use a different aur package manager):

Terminal
yay -Sy aeternum-bin

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For every other linux distribution, you'll have to check if your package manager has the aeternum-bin package.

Build

This will build the package from the latest release.

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For the arch package just use (we will use yay as an example here, replace yay if you use a different aur package manager):

Terminal
yay -Sy aeternum

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For every other linux distribution, you'll have to check if your package manager has the aeternum package.

Portable

Start of by downloading the latest aeternum-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz.

  • Extract the contents. You can either use your file manager or your terminal with the command:

    Terminal
    tar -xf aeternum-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

  • Open the folder. You can either cd into it or open it with your file manager.

  • Run. Now you can double click on aeternum or run it via your terminal with:

    Terminal
    ./aeternum