Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available
Hello again, lovely people!
Last month, I wrote a blog post detailing our plans for Unity on Linux. Well, I’m back again to tell you the big day has come; today we’re releasing an experimental build of Unity for Linux!
An Experimental Build
Today’s build is what we call an experimental build; future support is not yet guaranteed. Your adoption and feedback will help us determine if this is something we can sustain alongside our Mac and Windows builds.
Today’s build is based off Unity 5.1.0f3 and comes with the ability to export to the following runtimes:
- Linux, Mac, Windows Standalone
- WebGL
- WebPlayer
- Android
- Tizen
- SamsungTV
System Requirements
- 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 or newer (just like our player, the editor will run on most ‘modern’ 64-bit Linux distributions, but official support is only provided for 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 or newer)
- Modern Nvidia, AMD, or Intel graphics card with vendor-supported graphics drivers
Feedback and Issues
We’ve created a new section of the forums for you to provide feedback and report issues. That’s the primary place where we’ll be communicating with our users who are using the Linux build, so be sure to check it out. Crashes of the editor will pop up the bug reporter, which we encourage you to use in that case (because we’ll get the stacktrace).
That’s all for now. You can find the downloads here:
Read more about the release notes and known issues in our forum post.
Much love from Unity
Na’Tosha
Go4t
August 27, 2015 at 12:27 am /
Perhaps I am mistaken, but does this mean I need a 64bit machine? I am stuck in the dark ages with my old 32bit donated PC. Any love for the plebs?
DI
August 26, 2015 at 11:26 pm /
AWESOOOOMEOO!! Please keep going with this! I am always forced to use Windows for work for many years now! And I hate windows! I hate it so much… It is for sure the source of all evil.. (besides Apple of course)
Andres
August 26, 2015 at 11:24 pm /
THANK YOU!!!
Zoli
August 26, 2015 at 11:21 pm /
Finally! Thank you! This was a really good decision. Linux is the ultimate platform for all the good devs.
Keep up the good work.
Michael toussa
August 26, 2015 at 11:16 pm /
You’re awesome! I was thinking to switch to unreal engine because of that problem, but now I will wait to see if my favorite soft will be available on Debian ;)
Vinicius Moraes
August 26, 2015 at 10:31 pm /
Thanks! I was waiting for this since ever!
Realy, thank you!
Please, continue working for this!
Jonathan Andres
August 26, 2015 at 10:22 pm /
Thank you!
finally, linux users has been heard
Jon Davis
August 26, 2015 at 10:10 pm /
Thank you Unity! Been looking forward to this for a while and was not expecting to happen.
Now installing Unity3d in Ubuntu!
Retropikzel
August 26, 2015 at 9:50 pm /
Thank you very very much! : )
ribald
August 26, 2015 at 9:39 pm /
This installer must be run as root.
WTF ?!!?!?!?!??!
Never ever
Na'Tosha Bard
August 26, 2015 at 9:58 pm /
Yes, due to CEF / chrome sandbox.
alex44
August 26, 2015 at 9:33 pm /
wow!!!! Big THX ))))))))
Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer
August 26, 2015 at 9:03 pm /
What is with the 32bit requirement? Can’t you build Unity for Linux as 64bit only? I sure as hell am not installing a 2GB editor and an additional 500MB of 32bit subsystem that blows up GNOME 3.16 on Debian just to try this out.
Na'Tosha Bard
August 26, 2015 at 10:48 pm /
Some parts of Unity (like the shader compiler) are 32-bit — on all platforms.
Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer
August 26, 2015 at 9:03 pm /
What is with the 32bit requirement? Can’t you build Unity for Linux as 64bit only? I sure as hell am not installing a 2GB editor and an addtional 500MB of 32bit subsystem that blows up GNOME 3.16 on Debian just to try this out.
Raphael BArros
August 26, 2015 at 8:59 pm /
What a great timing! Just after buying Playmaker and making Unity work good out of wine (not so good timing, hahah). Sadly I’m getting a failed download all the time :(
Aoa
August 26, 2015 at 8:37 pm /
Congratulations on this release. Way to go. Really Linux is a great development platform. Hopefully more tools are ported to Linux.
Manu
August 26, 2015 at 8:36 pm /
Wooooohoooooooooo!!!
Leo Tindall
August 26, 2015 at 8:31 pm /
Thank you so, so much for the Linux release. This was the only thing keeping me from developing KSP mods, and my own strategy game. So, thank you!!
Tankenstein
August 26, 2015 at 8:08 pm /
Awesome! Been waiting a while for this, super happy that you guys went ahead with it.
Pierre
August 26, 2015 at 8:03 pm /
So much happiness and so much love. Natasha, you and your team deserve a trophy and some pizza. No really, very impressed, and very joyful!!
Teonnyn
August 26, 2015 at 11:02 pm /
Not just a trophy and pizza. A Pizza Trophy!
Oleg Chirukhin
August 26, 2015 at 7:54 pm /
You guys are the best, really
Now we can say goodbye to Microsoft
Nathan Warden
August 26, 2015 at 7:47 pm /
Na’Tosha, Levi and team… thank you very much for all your hard work! It is almost downloaded am about to give it a try!
chenxiang
August 26, 2015 at 7:32 pm /
Ｉ ｌｏｖｅ ｙｏｕ！！！！！
aceperry
August 26, 2015 at 7:32 pm /
YES! This is something that I’ve been hoping for. Thank you very much. I’m going to download it and try it out.
Sean Poynter
August 26, 2015 at 7:25 pm /
Installs and runs on Gentoo. Cool!
Marcius Oliveira
August 26, 2015 at 6:59 pm /
Starting the test :D thanks a lot Unity \o/ I ll pay with my feedback
David
August 26, 2015 at 6:42 pm /
Wow, awesome!
Download is running. I will give feedback as soon I tried it out.
Juan Sebastian Munnoz
August 26, 2015 at 6:28 pm /
Natosha, Levi <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 :D, oh, and more <3 <3 !
Joshua C
August 26, 2015 at 6:06 pm /
Finally… I have been trying to migrate entirely from Windows for my development PC and unity is the last thing i need to complete my migration. A dream come true
Reinvdw
August 26, 2015 at 5:59 pm /
This is really awesome news.
Very fast installation, no bugs seen so far.
Now I can finally use Unity properly in my much prefered development enviroment.
Ben
August 26, 2015 at 5:58 pm /
Awesome news!
Sanek
August 26, 2015 at 5:50 pm /
Great deal!!!! Thanx!!!
me
August 26, 2015 at 5:34 pm /
Could you show the comments in chronological order? It’s impossible to make sense of them currently. Thanks.
Moot
August 26, 2015 at 5:29 pm /
Works extremely well for an experimental build! Huge congratulations to the Unity team!
For those who have used Unity in Wine before, in comparison this native build is very performant and stable. Props to the Wine team for their efforts and being a good standby until this development.
Ubuntu MATE 15.04.
From Russia with Love! :D
August 26, 2015 at 5:24 pm /
THANKS GUYS! WE LOVE YOU! UNITY ON LINUX HEYAAAAA!!!
Please make some good testing under KDE (Kubuntu 14.04 LTS). :)
Jóhannes G.
August 26, 2015 at 5:23 pm /
Na’tosha Bard, 2 years ago I visited the Unity offices in Copenhagen and I have a faint memory of possibly spotting you there. If I would had known what you were doing (or were going to do) for the Linux community I would had shook your hand and thanked you in person. But instead this internet message will have to do. Thank you so very much! I am extremely grateful!
Rizkie Yudha Pratama
August 26, 2015 at 5:16 pm /
Finally after the long wait, going to test it as soon as possible.
Thank You Unity Technology!
One step closer to finally throw my Windows instalation away.
elias_t
August 26, 2015 at 5:15 pm /
That is very good news!
How about licensing Pro.
I have one license on a Mac and one on a windows machine.
Do I have to return one license so I can license the pro version?
George Roger
August 26, 2015 at 4:51 pm /
Awesome. This was the only piece of software that kept me on windows!
Chida
August 26, 2015 at 4:45 pm /
Running it right now on Fedora 22 ! Awesome ! :)
Just make sure not to install it in your downloads folder, otherwise it won’t work
Line
August 26, 2015 at 4:40 pm /
Can I install this through Docker I wonder?
Ddduesk
August 26, 2015 at 4:13 pm /
Please share to Open Suse.
haedri
August 26, 2015 at 4:09 pm /
Wow, thanks ! I was waiting for this to develop my future games on Unity
Zauber Paracelsus
August 26, 2015 at 4:08 pm /
Where do we report bugs? Because I tried running it and it’s stuck on “Connecting” and is eating up 100% CPU on one of my cores.
Zauber Paracelsus
August 26, 2015 at 4:09 pm /
Hold up: after force-killing it and then restarting, the issue went away. May have been a fluke.
alonso
August 26, 2015 at 4:11 pm /
Here: http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/linux-editor-support-feedback-experimental.93/
Zauber Paracelsus
August 26, 2015 at 4:11 pm /
Thanks
Zauber Paracelsus
August 26, 2015 at 4:11 pm /
Okay, showstopper issue: I can’t type anything in the editor.
Popa Adrian Marius
August 26, 2015 at 4:56 pm /
If you start from command line /opt/Unity/Editor/Unity
Seems that it works sometimes …
Levi Bard
August 26, 2015 at 4:57 pm /
Please report issues at http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/linux-editor-support-feedback-experimental.93
Stoopers
August 26, 2015 at 4:01 pm /
Yeah !! i’ve install it and working on my Laptop (ubuntu 14.04 64bit)
Terry
August 26, 2015 at 3:46 pm /
This is awesome. Going to do some digging. Need to check out the licensing, but if it’s viable I’ll try to create an ebuild for this for Gentoo users like myself.
Magbed
August 26, 2015 at 3:46 pm /
I cannot type the symbol ‘@’ into the login details… Internacionalization issues?
Paulo Henrique
August 26, 2015 at 3:24 pm /
Finally I can learn Unity in my machine!!! Thanks
Kristijan
August 26, 2015 at 3:19 pm /
Finally, we can soon move completely to Ubuntu, this was the only piece of software we were waiting for. Thanks Unity Technologies, continue developing it and support it for Linux :D
alonso
August 26, 2015 at 3:12 pm /
Downloading… for Ubuntu 14.04
pragmascript
August 26, 2015 at 3:09 pm /
NICE :)
it would be cool if it could be bundled in the future with Visual Studio Code for Linux to support debugging and to get away from monodevelop
Boomer Rogers
August 26, 2015 at 2:54 pm /
Just moved our team to linux (web and game developers). So happy this came out!!!!!!!!!!!
Seraphim
August 26, 2015 at 2:48 pm /
Cool! Love you guys!
username
August 26, 2015 at 2:46 pm /
Unity on Unity :D
(for those that don’t get the reference, Ubuntu’s default desktop environment is called Unity.)
Great to see this happen.
Kristijan T
August 26, 2015 at 2:44 pm /
AWWWWW YEAAAAAAAHHH!
Finally i can fully switch to linux without missing anything important.
Andre
August 26, 2015 at 2:09 pm /
Will it run on Chromebooks, like the Acer C720?
Levi Bard
August 26, 2015 at 2:50 pm /
Hardware-wise, I’d expect it to run, but maybe not as nicely as on a more powerful machine.
I think you’ll need to be running a “normal Linux” instead of ChromeOS, though. (Maybe somebody will prove me wrong!)
Jóhannes G.
August 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm /
I doubt you would be able to run it on a chromebook running chromeos (although, in theory ,it’s probably possible), but if you are running Linux on it then you should be able to run it. I’ve at least managed to run the windows version of Unity5 through Wine on a Acer Chromebook c710 running Ubuntu 14.04. (although it was a bit too unstable)
I can test this native version on my Acer C710 with Ubuntu 14.04 and get back to you if you want. :)
aceperry
August 26, 2015 at 7:35 pm /
LOL, you are the man! I’m running crouton on all of my chromebooks and have been able to get a fair amount of native ubuntu software running. The biggest challenge is the low amounts of memory on chromebooks, although I’ve heard that some people use SD cards to alleviate things. I think you should try to install unity on a chromebook and report back to all.
Jóhannes G.
August 26, 2015 at 9:19 pm /
HD space is not an issue on the C710 as it had a 320gb HDD. ;) Although I did replace it with a 60gb SSD. Note that my C710 also has maxed RAM (4GB)
Note that I got regular Ubuntu 14.04 on this C710 with an open source bios (I think it was called Seabios) so that I am not running Ubuntu on top of chroot, nor with the chrubuntu script.
I just tried installing Unity, and although I haven’t done any thorough testing it seems to be working quite fine. It was actually quicker at starting up than on my custom built i5 PC (with same distro) for some odd reasons.
So yeah! All is good here! I might do some more thorough posts in the forum when I have more time.
Daniel Branicki
August 26, 2015 at 2:01 pm /
Awesome news! Hopefully I’ll be able to test this soon.
helloworld
August 26, 2015 at 1:47 pm /
I got a “this package is of bad quality” error when trying to install with USC. I can continue with the install, but that’s not optimal
Micha
August 26, 2015 at 1:37 pm /
Awesome!
Christian
August 26, 2015 at 1:34 pm /
Alright, so how exactly do I install this?
Levi Bard
August 26, 2015 at 1:44 pm /
If you’re on Ubuntu, just open the .deb in Ubuntu Software Center (and read the release notes post in the forum – some platforms, e.g. Android, have additional external dependencies, just like on other platforms)
On other distributions, you’ll need to install your own dependencies (also discussed on the forum) and run the self-extracting installer script.
Studio Junkyard
August 26, 2015 at 1:58 pm /
If your using Linux Mint 17.2, I right-clicked and selected “Open with GDebi Package Installer”, worked without issue.
TaufiqTab
August 26, 2015 at 1:16 pm /
finally, a dream come true
Studio Junkyard
August 26, 2015 at 1:14 pm /
Awesome, 951MB is a little on the large side though. I’ll be happy to give feedback once I have a bit of a play with it.
Is there an official repository to report feedback and issue’s?
Studio Junkyard
August 26, 2015 at 1:16 pm /
Ooops, sorry, I should have read more of article, I see you do have a place for feedback.
Ilie Ploscaru
August 26, 2015 at 1:07 pm /
At last. A competitor to UnrealEngine :D
But the question remains:
Will it ble… be open source ?
no
August 26, 2015 at 1:14 pm /
no
YES
August 26, 2015 at 1:29 pm /
YES
NO
August 26, 2015 at 1:30 pm /
NO
MAYBE
August 26, 2015 at 4:40 pm /
MAYBE
koblavi
August 26, 2015 at 4:41 pm /
Awesome!! I actually didn’t expect this much progress this soon. Well done team!
I’m sure you guys have already thought of the amount of confusion this will create for Google search queries :) Just google “Unity Ubuntu”, you’ll see what I mean.
Richard Fine
August 26, 2015 at 4:59 pm /
We do have an initiative in place to open the source of parts of the engine where we can – for example, the UI system is (mostly) open source. You can expect to see more parts of what we develop joining it there in the future.
Unfortunately, just dumping all the source code on a public server somewhere is not an option, not least because we integrate third party technologies and platform modules that are not ours to publish.
Tbaggi
August 26, 2015 at 4:09 pm /
lol
And there is no procedural game generator system! We have to code! What a shame! ;)