TSDuck can be installed on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD).

Windows

On Windows systems, TSDuck can be installed using a binary installer (traditional method) or using the winget package manager (modern method).

Using winget

TSDuck is installable on Windows systems using the winget package manager.

winget is now the preferred package manager for open source and third-party products on Windows systems. It is documented and supported by Microsoft. It should be pre-installed on all recent Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems.

The TSDuck installation command is simply:

winget install tsduck

Download an installer

Executable binary installers for the latest TSDuck version are available for 64-bit Windows on Intel systems.

All tools, plugins and development environments are in the same installer. Running the installer provides several options:

Tools & Plugins
Documentation
Python Bindings (optional)
Java Bindings (optional)
C++ Development (optional)

Older versions of TSDuck remain available on GitHub. Nightly builds and pre-releases can be found on the TSDuck Web site.

To automate the installation, the executable binary installer can be run from the command line or a script.

The option /S means "silent". No window is displayed, no user interaction is possible.
The option /all=true means install all options. By default, only the tools, plugins and documentation are installed. In case of upgrade over an existing installation, the default is to upgrade the same options as in the previous installation.

macOS

TSDuck is installable on macOS systems using Homebrew, the package manager for open-source projects on macOS.

If you have never used Homebrew on your system, you can install it using the following command (which can also be found on the Homebrew home page):

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Once Homebrew is set up, you can install TSDuck using:

brew install tsduck

All tools, plugins and development environments are installed.

After installation, to upgrade to latest version:

brew update

brew upgrade tsduck

When Homebrew upgrades packages, the old versions are not removed. The new versions are just added. After a while, megabytes of outdated packages accumulate on disk. To remove outdated packages:

brew cleanup

To uninstall TSDuck:

brew uninstall tsduck

If you would like to install the lastest test version (HEAD version) use the following command. Be aware that it takes time since TSDuck is locally recompiled.

brew install --HEAD tsduck

Linux

Pre-build packages for the latest TSDuck version are available for the following configurations:

Fedora (64-bit Intel)
Ubuntu (64-bit Intel)
RedHat, CentOS, Alma Linux (64-bit Intel)
Debian (64-bit Intel)
Raspbian (32-Bit Arm, Raspberry Pi)

The type of package, .rpm or .deb, depends on the configuration. The pre-built packages are provided for the latest version of each distro only.

For each distro, two packages exist: the tsduck package installs the TSDuck commands, plugins, Java and Python bindings, the tsduck-devel or tsduck-dev package installs the development environment for C++ programmers.

Older versions of TSDuck remain available on GitHub. Nightly builds and pre-releases for Ubuntu can be found on the TSDuck Web site.

To use older versions of the above distros, rebuilding the packages is easy:

make -j10

make installer

To install TSDuck on other types of Linux systems for which no package is available,

make -j10

sudo make install

More details on how to build TSDuck are available here.

BSD systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD)

There is currently no installer for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD. You need to build and install as follow:

gmake -j10

sudo gmake install

Note that GNU Make (gmake) shall be used instead of the standard BSD make.