Installation

We do our best to let GCompris run on as many software and hardware platform as we can. In this section, we list the supported platform and specific installation instructions.

GNU/Linux

Regular installation through the distribution's package manager.

GCompris is packaged for the main GNU/Linux distributions. Just use your package manager to install it. If it is not packaged, you can install our binary autopackage file or compile GCompris yourself. You can find autopacke file in our main download site.

Compilation

Compiling a software is not always an easy task and you may encounter a large number of problems. This is especially true for GCompris since it has numerous external dependencies that you will have to install first. You can have a look at our Developer's corner do get help in the compilation process.

Windows

There is a version of GCompris that runs on Windows but provides only a limited number of activities. You may purchase an activation code to access all the activities.

There is 2 windows versions of GCompris:

• GCompris 7.4. It runs on windows 98 and above and not all activities are available with it. You can see on this page which activities are part of this version by looking at the windows logo.

• GCompris 8.3 and above. It runs on windows 2000 and above. Once activated, it includes all the activities found on GNU/Linux.

To take advantage of this demo, download the file gcompris-X.X.exe. Save it on your hard drive and double click on it. Then follow the instructions (next, next, ...)

MacOSX

You can compile GCompris for MacOSX through the fink package system.

Embedded / Mini platforms

OLPC XO

You can install GCompris on your OLPC XO. We provide it as a single bundle like for all the other platforms or as single separated activities. Each countries deploying XO can pick the activities that are the most relevant for their educational goals.

Intel Classmate

The Intel Classmate comes with different operating system, GNU/Linux based or Windows. In both case GCompris is supported.

Nokia Maemo

Nokia Internet Tablets that runs Maemo can be installed with GCompris, just download it from here.

Asus EEE

Asus EEE Pc is shipped with a GNU/Linux Xandros distribution. GCompris is provided by Xandros but you have to add a source package manually in /etc/apt/sources.list, the line to add is:

deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free

Once done, just run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcompris

Acer Aspire One

Using the default GNU/Linux based Linpus distribution that the Aspire One is shipped with, it is easy to install GCompris following these steps: