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Installation

chipmunk is distributed as a portable version and does not require any installation - just download and run. Additionally:

  • It does not install or depend on any external libraries or runtime environments (with a small exception for Windows).
  • It includes a built-in update mechanism (you will be notified when a new version is available).
  • It is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms.

Download

The latest chipmunk release can be downloaded here.

Mac OS

Move chipmunk.app to your application folder.

Or using Homebrew

brew install --cask chipmunk

Windows

Unpack chipmunk to a folder of your choosing. Use the chipmunk.exe to start chipmunk.

Requirements: - should be installed a latest package of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Linux

Unpack chipmunk to a folder of your choosing. Use the chipmunk executable to start chipmunk.

Additionally, each chipmunk release comes with deb and rpm packages.

Ubuntu 24.04 and newer

Ubuntu 24.04 introduced stricter AppArmor restrictions that may prevent the Electron sandbox from working correctly when running the portable version of Chipmunk.

In some cases, Chipmunk may start normally when launched from the GUI, but fail when started from the terminal.

If you require running Chipmunk from the terminal, we recommend installing it using the provided .deb or .rpm package.

If Chipmunk fails to start with an error similar to:

FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(163)

run the following helper script to enable the required AppArmor profile for Chipmunk:

sudo ./scripts/os/ubuntu_enabler.sh