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Εγκατάσταση Defold

Η εγκατάσταση του προγράμματος επεξεργασίας Defold είναι αρκετά απλή. Κατεβάστε την έκδοση που έχει δημιουργηθεί για το λειτουργικό σας σύστημα, εξαγάγετε την και αντιγράψτε το λογισμικό σε κατάλληλη τοποθεσία.

Downloading

Go to the Defold download page where you will find Download buttons for macOS, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu):

Installation

Installation on macOS

The downloaded file is a DMG image containing the program.

1. Locate the file “Defold-x86_64-darwin.dmg” and double click it to open the image.
2. Drag the application “Defold” to the “Applications” folder link.

To start the editor, open your “Applications” folder and double click the file “Defold”.

Installation on Windows

The downloaded file is a ZIP archive that needs to be extracted:

1. Locate the archive file “Defold-x86_64-win32.zip” (or “Defold-x86-win32.zip” for 32 bit Windows), press and hold (or right-click) the folder, select Extract All, and then follow the instructions to extract the archive to a folder named “Defold”.
2. Move the folder “Defold” to “C:\Program Files (x86)"

To start the editor, open the folder “Defold” and double click the file “Defold.exe”.

Installation on Linux

The downloaded file is a ZIP archive that needs to be extracted:

1. From a terminal, locate the archive file “Defold-x86_64-linux.zip” unzip it to a target Directory called “Defold”.

   $ unzip Defold-x86_64-linux.zip -d Defold
   

To start the editor, change directory to where you extracted the application, then run the Defold executable, or double click it on your desktop.

$ cd Defold
$ ./Defold

If you run into any problems starting the editor, opening a project or running a Defold game please refer to the Linux section of the FAQ.

Install an old version

From Defold GitHub release page

Every stable version of Defold is also released on GitHub.

From Defold download page

You can download and install old editor versions using the following link pattern:

• Windows: https://d.defold.com/archive/%sha1%/stable/editor2/Defold-x86_64-win32.zip
• macOS: https://d.defold.com/archive/%sha1%/stable/editor2/Defold-x86_64-darwin.dmg
• Linux: https://d.defold.com/archive/%sha1%/stable/editor2/Defold-x86_64-linux.zip

Replace %sha1% by the editor release hash representing the version in question. The hash of each Defold version can be seen in the links to the released version on the download page at https://d.defold.com/stable/ (make sure to remove the initial # character and only copy the alpha-numeric part):