Translations:Manual:Installing/2/en

FreeCAD behaves the same on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. However, the way to install it differs slightly depending on your platform. On Windows and Mac, the FreeCAD community provides precompiled packages (installers) ready to download; while on Linux, the source code is made available to Linux distributions maintainers who are then responsible for packaging FreeCAD for their specific distribution. As a result, on Linux, you can usually install FreeCAD right from the software manager application.