Installation

Windows

Go grab the latest release and download the .exe desktop client. You can install the exe either as non-administrator into your profile or as administrator system wide. The desktop client does register itself as auto start application after it was started for the first time. It does automatically check for updates and install them after either restarting the client or manually executed.

Mac OS

Homebrew

You may use brew to install the desktop client.

brew tap gyselroth/cask
brew cask install balloon-desktop

Installer

Go grab the latest release and download the .pkg package.

Linux

Debian

You can download the deb file directly from the latest release. But you won't receive any updates since automatic updates on debian get distributed via an apt repository.

Install via apt (Recommended)

The recommended way is to install the client via the apt repository:

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/gyselroth/balloon stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -qO - https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=gyselroth | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install balloon-desktop

Install unstable packages via apt

If you want using nightly or unstable packages you can install those repositories. Those repositories are not meant for production, use at own risk!

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/gyselroth/balloon unstable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

or for nightly:

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/gyselroth/balloon nightly main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

Rpm based distribution

For rpm based distributions you are required to grab the rpm from the lastest release. There is not (yet) a yum repository.

Linux (Others)

If you do not want a packaged bundle or not having an rpm/deb based distribution, you may grab the zipped archive from the latest release.