Download information
====================

This section presents the different methods to download NUT.

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Source code
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[NOTE]
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You should always use PGP/GPG to verify the signatures before using any source code.

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You can use the
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Stable tree: {tree_version}
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- link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/{tree_version}/nut-{revision}.tar.gz[nut-{revision}.tar.gz]
- link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/{tree_version}/nut-{revision}.tar.gz.sig[PGP/GPG signature]
- link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/{tree_version}/nut-{revision}.tar.gz.sha256[SHA-256 sum]
- link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/{tree_version}/nut-{revision}.tar.gz.md5[MD5 sum]
- link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/{tree_version}/new-{revision}.txt[Release notes]
- link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/{tree_version}/ChangeLog[ChangeLog]

You can also browse the link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/{tree_version}/[stable source directory].

Development tree:
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Code repository
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The development tree is available through a Git repository hosted at
link:https://github.com/[GitHub].

To retrieve the current development tree, use the following command:

	:; git clone git://github.com/networkupstools/nut.git

OPTIONALLY you can then fetch known git tags, so semantic versions look
better (based off a recent release):

	:; cd nut
	:; git fetch --tags --all

The `configure` script and its dependencies are not stored in Git. To generate
them, ensure that autoconf, automake and libtool are installed, then run the
following script in the directory you just checked out:

	:; ./autogen.sh

NOTE: It is optionally recommended to have Python 2.x or 3.x, and Perl, to
generate some files included into the `configure` script, presence is checked
by autotools when it is generated. Neutered files can be just "touched" to
pass the `autogen.sh` if these interpreters are not available, and effectively
skip those parts of the build later on -- `autogen.sh` will then advise which
special environment variables to `export` in your situation and re-run it.

Then refer to the
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 for more information.

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NOTE: Users that need the latest developments to support new devices *must*
use Git or <<Snapshots,snapshots>>.
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Browse code
^^^^^^^^^^^

You can browse the "vanilla NUT" code at the
link:https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/[Main GitHub repository for NUT sources],
and some possibly modified copies as part of packaging recipe
sources of operating system distributions, as listed below.

[[Snapshots]]
Snapshots
^^^^^^^^^

GitHub has several download links for repository snapshots (for particular tags
or branches), but you will need a number of tools such as `autoconf`, `automake`
and `libtool` to use these snapshots to generate the `configure` script and some
other files.

After you `configure` the source workspace, a `make dist-hash` recipe would
create the snapshot tarballs which do not require the `auto*` tools, and their
checksum files, such as those available on the NUT website and attached to
link:https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/releases[GitHub Releases page].

Note that the ability to build NUT seamlessly from ZIP or `tar.gz` snapshots
prepared by GitHub automatically (as `git archive` of a checked-out workspace)
is not regularly checked or "supported" by the Network UPS Tools project. YMMV.

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TODO: #1400 to replace this with a NUT CI farm service to publish the tarballs

If our Buildbot instance is behaving, you can download a snapshot which does
not require auto* tools from this
link:http://buildbot.networkupstools.org/snapshots[builder].  Look for the
latest *[tarball]* link towards the top of the page, and be sure to check the
'Build ##' link to verify the branch name.
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Older versions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

link:https://www.networkupstools.org/source/[Browse source directory]


Binary packages
---------------

[NOTE]
======
The only official releases from this project are source code "tarballs",
prepared by `make dist-files` from the tagged release commits on main trunk of
the development code base (for more details see NUT Maintainer Guide in source).

Best-effort packages or archives of installation prototype workspaces, prepared
by regular CI builds, are planned to ease evaluation of the latest development
for some platforms (currently serving only NUT for Windows).
======

NUT is already available in the following operating systems (and
link:https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/Links-to-distribution-packaging-recipes-and-repository-sections[likely more]):

- link:https://repology.org/project/network-ups-tools/versions[Repology report
  on "network-ups-tools"] lists 239 entries about NUT, as of 2025-09-06

    * Older listing at link:https://repology.org/project/nut/versions[Repology
      report on "nut"] listed 745 entries about NUT, as of 2022-04-26 -- that
      name was not tracked since 2024 probably due to ambiguity with some other
      projects that used "nut" in their name;
      see link:https://repology.org/project/nut/history[Repology history of
      "nut"] for more details

- Linux:

    * link:https://github.com/42ity/nut/tree/FTY/obs[42ITy.org packaging recipes for Debian-based releases]
    * link:https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nut/[Debian Salsa recipes]
      and link:http://packages.debian.org/nut[Debian packages]
    * link:http://packages.ubuntu.com/nut[Ubuntu packages]
    * link:https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nut/tree/rawhide[Fedora Rawhide recipes]
      and link:https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nut[Red Hat / Fedora packages]
    * link:https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=network-ups-tools-git[Arch Linux recipe]
      and link:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/network-ups-tools-git[Arch Linux package info]
    * link:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-power/nut[Gentoo Linux recipe]
      and link:http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-power/nut[Gentoo Linux package info]
    * link:https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3AFactory/nut[Novell SUSE / openSUSE official package base recipe]
      and link:https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/hardware/nut[Novell SUSE / openSUSE official package development recipe],
      and link:http://software.opensuse.org/package/nut[Novell SUSE / openSUSE official package overview]
    * link:https://build.opensuse.org/search?search_text=nut[Numerous other recipes on Open Build System (not only by SUSE)]
    * link:https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/nut[OpenWRT recipes]
    * link:http://sotirov-bg.net/slackpack/search.cgi?q=nut[Slackware package overview]
    * link:https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/network-ups-tools[Void Linux recipes]

- BSD systems:

    * link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/sysutils/nut-devel[FreeBSD package recipe (devel)],
      link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/sysutils/nut[FreeBSD package recipe]
      and link:http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=^nut-&amp;stype=name[FreeBSD package overview]
    * link:http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/sysutils/ups-nut/[NetBSD recipe] and link:https://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/ups-nut[NetBSD package overview]
    * link:http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/nut/[OpenBSD recipe]
    * link:https://github.com/freenas/iocage-ports/tree/master/sysutils/nut[FreeNAS iocage-ports recipe],
      link:http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_services.html#ups[FreeNAS 9.3 docs on UPS integration]
      and link:https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.3-U5/services.html#ups[FreeNAS 11.3-U5 docs on UPS integration]

- macOS 11+ and Mac OS X:

    * link:https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nut[Homebrew formula]
    * link:https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/blob/master/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/net/nut.info[Fink recipe]
      and link:http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/nut[Fink package overview]
    * link:http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/nut/Portfile[MacPorts recipe]

- illumos/Solaris:

    * link:https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/components/sysutils/nut[OpenIndiana oi-userland recipe]
      and link:https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/search.shtml?token=nut&action=Search[OpenIndiana latest rolling builds]

- Windows (complete port, Beta):

    * Current regular CI builds are available as tarballs with binaries from
      link:https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nut-travis/nut/build/artifacts[Appveyor
      CI] -- but it may be difficult to locate specifically the master-branch builds.
      See link:https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/NUT-for-Windows[NUT
      for Windows wiki article] for these details, and more.
+
The latest release's automated build archive is available here:
      link:https://www.networkupstools.org/package/windows/NUT-for-Windows-x86_64-RELEASE-{revision}.7z[NUT-for-Windows-x86_64-RELEASE-{revision}.7z]

    * link:https://www.networkupstools.org/package/windows/NUT-Installer-2.6.5-6.msi[(OBSOLETE) Windows MSI installer 2.6.5-6]


Java packages
-------------

- The jNut package has been split into its own
  link:https://github.com/networkupstools/jNut[GitHub repository].

- NUT Java support (client side, Beta)
  link:https://www.networkupstools.org/package/java/jNut-0.2-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz[jNUT 0.2-SNAPSHOT]

- NUT Java Web support (client side using REST, Beta)
  link:https://www.networkupstools.org/package/java/jNutWebAPI-0.2-SNAPSHOT-src.tar.gz[jNutWebAPI 0.2-SNAPSHOT (sources)]

Virtualization packages
-----------------------

VMware
~~~~~~

- NUT client for VMware ESXi (several versions of both; offsite, by René Garcia).
  Since the hypervisor manager environment lacks access to hardware ports, this
  package only includes the `upsmon` client integration, and a NUT server must
  run in a VM with passed-through ports.
+
See link:https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/wiki/NUT-and-VMware-(ESXi)[NUT
  and VMware (ESXi) page on NUT Wiki] for more community-contributed details.
+
Note that the VIB package versioning is independent of NUT or VMware versions,
  they are however mentioned in downloadable file names. As of this writing,
  there are builds spanning VMware ESXi 5.0-8.0 and NUT 2.7.4-2.8.0.
+
WARNING: This module is provided "as is" and is not approved by VMware,
you may lose VMware support if you install it. Use it at your own risks.

  * link:https://github.com/rgc2000/NutClient-ESXi[GitHub repository with build recipes],
    including link:https://github.com/rgc2000/NutClient-ESXi/releases[binary releases]
  * link:https://rene.margar.fr/2012/05/client-nut-pour-esxi-5-0/[Original blog entry (French)]
    * link:https://rene.margar.fr/2012/05/client-nut-pour-esxi-5-0/comment-page-22/#comment-13325[Historic
      details of the recipe evolution]
  * link:https://rene.margar.fr/downloads/NutClient-ESXi500-1.4.0.tar.gz[VIB package
    (in fact automatically redirects to latest build)]
