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    <h1>Downloads</h1>
    <h2>Getting started</h2>
    <p>
      Are you a new user?
      Have a look at our <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/Getting_Started">Getting Started</a>,
      <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/FAQ">FAQ</a>,
       and <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/Tutorials">Tutorials</a> pages on our wiki.<br>
      Otherwise, feel free to look at the <a href="https://dev.minetest.net/Changelog#0.4.17_.E2.86.92_0.4.17.1">changelog</a>.
    </p>
    <p>
      You may also want to look at some
      <a href="https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=15">games</a>.
      Games provide basic game play for the engine to run using Lua scripts.
      Different games have different objectives, such as survival, building or Player vs Player.
      Usually Minetest comes with
      <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game">Minetest Game</a>,
      to supply the default items and blocks.
      You can then add <a href="http://minetest.net/customize/#mods">mods</a> on
      top of a game in order to customize your experience further.
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        <h2>Windows</h2>
        <p>
          Works on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. May work on older versions, but not officially supported.
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li class="has-text-weight-bold">
            <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases/download/5.0.1/minetest-5.0.1-win64.zip">
              Minetest 5.0.1 - portable, 64-bit (recommended)
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases/download/5.0.1/minetest-5.0.1-win32.zip">
              Minetest 5.0.1 - portable, 32-bit
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
        <p>
          Stuck? See
          <a href="//wiki.minetest.net/Getting_Started#Windows">help on getting Minetest on Windows.</a>
        </p>
        <p>
          You can also get the latest development version of Minetest from
          <a href="https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=42">builds made by community members</a>.
          These builds are more recent than the officially released builds
          and contain new features (at the cost of stability).
        </p>
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        <h2>Android</h2>
        <p>Android 4.0 or later is recommended.</p>
        <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.minetest.minetest&utm_source=website&pcampaignid=MKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1">
          <img style="max-height: 7em;" alt="Get it on Google Play" src="{{ '/media/google-play-badge.png' | relative_url }}"/>
        </a>
        <p>
          Alternatively, install from
          <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.minetest.minetest/">F-Droid</a>.
          {#
          or
          <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases/download/5.0.1/Minetest-5.0.1.24.apk">download the APK</a>.
          #}
        </p>
        <p>
          <strong>Note:</strong> We advise not to use unofficial builds commonly found on the Play Store.
          They may contain excessive advertisements or spyware, or be distributed under proprietary terms.
        </p>
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        <h2>Linux</h2>
        <h3>Packages</h3>
        <p>Those may be out of date at times. If they are too out of date, you can build from source.</p>

        <ul>
          <li>Flatpak (all distributions) -
              <a href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.minetest.Minetest">Stable</a></li>
          <li>Debian -
              <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=minetest">Stable</a></li>
          <li>Ubuntu -
              <a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=minetest">Stable</a></li>
          <li>Ubuntu / Linux Mint (PPA) -
              <a href="https://launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/ubuntu/stable">Stable</a>,
              <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/daily-builds/+packages">Unstable</a></li>
          <li>Fedora -
              <a href="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/minetest">Stable</a></li>
          <li>openSUSE -
              <a href="https://software.opensuse.org/package/minetest">Stable</a></li>
          <li>Mageia -
              <a href="https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/name/minetest">Stable</a></li>
          <li>Arch Linux -
              <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=minetest">Stable</a>,
              <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minetest-git-leveldb/">Unstable</a></li>
          <li>Gentoo -
              <a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/package/games-action/minetest">Stable</a></li>
          <li>VoidLinux -
              <a href="https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/minetest">Stable</a></li>
        </ul>
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        <h2>FreeBSD</h2>
        <h3>Package manager</h3>
        <p>On FreeBSD 9.1 and newer, you can use the official pre-built packages:
            <code>pkg install minetest minetest_game</code></p>
        <h3>Compile using ports</h3>
        <p>You can compile Minetest and choose build options easily using the FreeBSD port dialogs.</p>
        <pre>
cd /usr/ports/games/minetest
make install
cd /usr/ports/games/minetest_game
make install
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        <h2>macOS</h2>
        <p>macOS 10.10 or later is recommended.</p>
        <ul>
          <li>
            Use <a href="https://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a> to get the stable version:<br>
            <code>brew install minetest</code>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=9190">Daily unstable builds</a>
          </li>
        </ul>
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        <h2>Source code</h2>
        <p>
          Get the latest <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/tree/stable-0.4">stable</a>
          or <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest">development</a> source code from
          <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest">GitHub</a>.<br>
          You will probably want <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game">minetest_game</a> as well.
          Put the game in your games directory.
        </p>
        <p>
          See <a href="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/README.md">README.md</a>
          for details on how to compile Minetest from source.
        </p>

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