Select Your Operating System
Windows
The installers for Windows contains the portable and normal install, and plugins.
Links:
- Retroshare-0.6.1-Qt4 Installer
- Retroshare-0.6.1-Qt5 Installer
Checksums: checksum.txt
Apple
RetroShare is currently available for MacOS (v0.6.0 only, on Sept 3, 2016. 0.6.1 coming soon!)
Link: RetroShare_v0.6.0.dmg
Checksums: checksum.txt
Ubuntu
Retroshare is currently available on all Ubuntu distributions up to Xenial (16.04).
To install Retroshare on ubuntu, please use one of the following two PPA repositories
- Stable: retroshare stable
- Regular development releases: retroshare unstable
Development releases are always tested and therefore reasonnably safe to use. They happen irregularly, with an average of 2 weeks between updates.
# for Retroshare releases only
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:retroshare/stable
# for Retroshare development snapshots
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:retroshare/unstable
# then
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install retroshare06
Since v0.6 and v0.5 networks are incompatible, we made sure that both versions can run simultaneously (hence the different package name for v0.6).
Packages for Ubuntu compatible for the Raspberry Pi are also available on GitHub
Debian
Retroshare is currently available on Debian Stretch for i386 and amd64 architectures.
You can download packages from GitHub released by the Development Team: Debian packages
Stable and Nightly Builds are also available here for Debian 7 Wheezy and Debian 8 Jessie:
Stable: retroshare
Nightly Builds: retroshare-unstable
To receive RetroShare via your package manager, you can add the repository to your sources.
# for Retroshare releases only
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/AsamK:/RetroShare/Debian_8.0/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/retroshare06.list"
# for Retroshare nightly builds
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/AsamK:/RetroShare/Debian_8.0/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/retroshare06-git.list"
# then
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install retroshare06
Arch Linux
RetroShare is currently available in Arch User Repository.
- Stable: Arch User Repository
- Nightly Builds: Arch User Repository
RetroShare Packages for Arch are also available on openSUSE Build Service
- Stable: OBS Stable
- Nighlty Builds: OBS Nightly
Fedora
Retroshare is currently available on Fedora 23 and 24.
Stable Fedora
Fedora 24
- Fedora 24 32bit v0.6.1-3.1.i686.rpm
- Fedora 24 64bit v0.6.1-3.1.x86_64.rpm
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
dnf config-manager --add-repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/Fedora_24/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
dnf install retroshare06
Fedora 23
- Fedora 23 32bit v0.6.1-3.1.i686.rpm
- Fedora 23 64bit v0.6.1-3.1.x86_64.rpm
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
dnf config-manager --add-repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/Fedora_23/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
dnf install retroshare06
Nightly Builds Fedora
These builds are released daily and may contain contain bugs.
Fedora 24
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
dnf config-manager --add-repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/Fedora_24/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
dnf install retroshare06-git
Fedora 23
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
dnf config-manager --add-repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/Fedora_23/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
dnf install retroshare06-git
Gentoo
The ebuilds are available here
FreeBSD
Retroshare is currently available on FreeBSD via the ports system.
Link: freshports
Raspberry Pi
At the moment Raspberry Pi builds are planned for the next release to be included. Ask the community for handmade builds, or compile it on your own. It's easy to follow the Vanilla Debian compile instructions to create your own Raspbian binaries.
Mageia
Retroshare is currently available on Mageia for i586 and x86_64.
Sadly the builds are at v0.5.5c and kind of outdated.
Link: Mageia
CentOS
Stable CentOS
Stable builds are official releases.
CentOS 7
- 64bit v0.6.1-3.1.x86_64.rpm
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/CentOS_7/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
yum install retroshare06
Nightly Builds CentOS
These builds are released daily and may contain contain bugs.
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/CentOS_7/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
yum install retroshare06-git
openSUSE
Retroshare is currently available on openSUSE.
Install stable release via: 
Download binary or add Repository manually:
Stable openSUSE
openSUSE Tumbleweed packages
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06
openSUSE Leap 42.2 packages
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06
openSUSE Leap 42.1 packages
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06
openSUSE Factory ARM packages
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Factory_ARM/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06
openSUSE 13.2 packages
install via package manager
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_13.2/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06
Nightly Builds openSUSE
openSUSE Tumbleweed
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06-git
openSUSE Leap 42.2
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06-git
openSUSE Leap 42.1
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06-git
openSUSE Factory ARM
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_Factory_ARM/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06-git
openSUSE 13.2
# run the following as root to install RetroShare via package manager
zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:AsamK:RetroShare/openSUSE_13.2/home:AsamK:RetroShare.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install retroshare06-git