Download Shoes
Shoes Curious was released on January 8th, 2008 (recommended builds in bold). In other words, these builds are old. If you'd like to try the very latest Shoes, see the RecentBuilds page.
| Platform | Video | Size | Link | Updated |
| Windows XP/Vista | Yes | 6.9MB 10MB | shoes-0.r396-curious.exe shoes-0.r371-win32.zip | 2008 Jan 08 2007 Dec 29 |
| Windows XP/Vista | No | 2.5MB 3.2MB | shoes-0.r396-curious-novideo.exe shoes-0.r371-win32-novideo.zip | 2008 Jan 08 2007 Dec 29 |
| Mac OS X (Intel) | Yes | 7.8MB | shoes-0.r396-curious-intel.dmg | 2008 Jan 08 |
| Mac OS X (Intel) | No | 3.3MB | shoes-0.r396-curious-intel-novideo.dmg | 2008 Jan 08 |
| Mac OS X (PPC) | No | 5.1MB | shoes-0.r396-curious-ppc-novideo.dmg | 2008 Jan 08 |
| Debian Unstable/Testing | No | 173K | 0.r396-2 | 2008 23 Jan |
| Source | Sure | 164KB | shoes-0.r396-curious.tar.gz | 2007 Jan 08 |
Apple OSX (Quartz)
The latest Intel build for OSX is shoes-0.r396-curious-intel.dmg (released 2008 Jan 08).
Mount the disk image and drag the Shoes icon into your Applications folder. Now, visit your Applications folder and click on the Shoes icon. A file opener dialog will appear. Enter the samples directory and select timer.rb to run.
Microsoft Windows (Vista, XP and 2000)
The latest build for Windows is shoes-0.r396-curious.exe (released 2008 Jan 08).
Run the installer, then run Shoes from your Start Menu. Enter the samples directory and select timer.rb, for instance.
You may also run Shoes from a command prompt: shoes samples\timer.rb
Debian and Ubuntu Linux
On Debian unstable/testing, you may install directly from packages:
$ sudo apt-get install shoes
The latest tarball for Linux is shoes-0.r396-curious.tar.gz (released 2008 Jan 08).
First, be sure you've got the dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libungif4-dev libjpeg62-dev libgtk2.0-dev libvlc0-dev ruby1.8-dev
To build it:
$ tar xzvf shoes-0.r331.tar.gz $ cd shoes-0.r331 $ make VIDEO=1 $ cd dist $ ./shoes samples/timer.rb
To install (for instance, into /opt/shoes):
$ make PREFIX=/opt/shoes VIDEO=1 install
Arch Linux
Please note that there is no support for Video as of 2.3.2008, if you have any idea how to make the VIDEO=1 option work (probably needs a specific version of VLC) please update this section or better yet leave a comment at AUR
If you have yaourt:
$ yaourt -S shoes
else, getting, making and installing the PKGBUILD yourself:
$ mkdir shoes $ cd shoes $ wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/shoes/shoes/PKGBUILD $ makepkg $ pacman -U *.pkg.tar.gz
Troubles?
If you've got troubles, you may try asking the mailing list mentioned on the WikiStart page.
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