Installation of the Defold editor is quite straightforward. Download the version built for your operating system, extract it and copy the software to a suitable location.
Go to the Defold download page where you will find Download buttons for macOS, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu):
To start the editor, open your “Applications” folder and double click the file “Defold”.
D:\Defold
). You should not move Defold to C:\Program Files (x86)\
or C:\Program Files\
since this will prevent the editor from updating.To start the editor, open the folder “Defold” and double click the file “Defold.exe”.
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
There is a helper to install a desktop entry on the Help > Create Desktop Entry
menu.
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.
Every beta and stable version of Defold is also available on GitHub.
Did you spot an error or do you have a suggestion? Please let us know on GitHub!
GITHUB