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daily build/current CVS version. Also check the list of known bugs

(below) and the [http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php compatibility list on our website]

Also, please do not report bugs on games that are not listed as being completable in [[#Appendix: Supported games | Appendix: Supported games]]

, or in the online [http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php compatibility list].

Basically you have two choices on how to get ScummVM: either you download one of the binaries we built for you (probably the most convenient way); or you can compiler it yourself from source. We strongly recommend to beginners to use our prebuilt binaries.

You can download official binaries of ScummVM from our [http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php downloads page]. Go there with your favorite web browser and download the binary for your platform. If none is available, you may have to build ScummVM yourself, refer to the next section for instructions on how to do that. Alternatively, some third parties are providing unofficial ScummVM binaries for further platforms, but naturally, we can not make any statements about the quality of such unofficial builds - use them at your own risk!

We always ship prebuilt binaries of ScummVM for the following platforms (note that it can take some time after a release for all binaries to be available):

After you have obtained ScummVM as described in the previous section, you probably will want to install it on your system. The steps required for that differ between the various operating systems. In the following we try to cover all the systems we officially support.