This Flatpak is available on Flathub. After following the Flatpak setup guide, you can install it by entering the following command in a terminal:
flatpak install flathub com.dosbox.DOSBox -y
Once the Flatpak is installed, you can run DOSBox using your desktop environment's
application launcher or by running flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox
in a terminal.
This Flatpak follows the latest stable DOSBox version. To update it, run the following command in a terminal:
flatpak update
- For security reasons, this Flatpak is sandboxed and only has access to the user's Documents folder. You should place any files you need within DOSBox in that folder (or in a subfolder).
Please create an issue if you find any other limitations that should be documented here.
Under the default Flatpak configuration, the DOSBox configuration files are
located in ~/.var/app/com.dosbox.DOSBox/.dosbox/
. To access it with a
graphical file manager, you'll have to make hidden folders visible.
Install Git, follow the flatpak-builder setup guide then enter the following commands in a terminal:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/flathub/com.dosbox.DOSBox.git
cd com.dosbox.DOSBox
flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk//22.08 -y
flatpak-builder --force-clean --install --user -y builddir com.dosbox.DOSBox.json
If all goes well, the Flatpak will be installed after building. You can then run it using your desktop environment's application launcher.
You can speed up incremental builds by installing ccache
and specifying --ccache
in the flatpak-builder command line (before builddir
).