Documentation:Installing MakeHuman

Installable versions of MakeHuman™ are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

The installable versions of the current!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/content/download_makehuman_102.html -- stable !/LINK!!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/content/download_makehuman_102.html -- release!/LINK!of MakeHuman are available for downlaod, as are!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/content/download_nightlybuild.html -- nightly builds!/LINK! representing the latest deveopmental updates (not guaranteed stable) for the same platforms.

System Requirements

You will need about 250 MB of disk space. In order to use some realtime materials and obtain the best from the internal rendering engine, it's required an average quality graphic card, produced after the year 2006. In general, your graphics card should support OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) version 1.2 or above. There have been reports that the model colors are corrupted on some older Intel Graphics cards (often appearing blue and black). If you experience this, a possible work-around is to start MakeHuman™ with the "-noshaders" command line switch. On Windows, this switch can be added to your shortcut.

Choice of Installation Directory

The preferred install location location for MakeHuman is a directory simply named "MakeHuman", but in practice you can use another meaningful name. if it is constructed of ASCII characters. On Windows, C:\Makehuman would make a good choice, and on Linux-alike OS's ~/MakeHuman would make a good choice. Program data is written to the user's home directory by default, and not to the program install directory. Thus, it is not essential that users have write privledges to the program install directory. One caution on Windows systems is that the installation directory should not contain non-ASCII characters as this has been reported to cause problems for some users. This also implies that if your username includes non-ASCII letters that the desktop and Docuemts folders will not be appropriate places for installation because they would result in a path containing non-ASCII cahracters [e.g., C:\users\Åke\MakeHuman or C:\users\Desktop\Åke\MakeHuman are likely to cause problems).

Windows

Download the zip file (or the installer, if available) from the from the download page (!LINK!http://makehuman.org/content/download.html -- http://makehuman.org/content/download.html!/LINK!).

• Installer (not available yet): just run it. The application will be accessible from the Start menu.
• Zip arhive: just to unzip it where you prefer, and double click on makehuman.exe to start the application.

Mac OS X

Download and run the installer (or the zip file) from the from the download page (!LINK!http://makehuman.org/content/download.html -- http://makehuman.org/content/download.html!/LINK!). Once downloaded, mount the disk image and drag the MakeHuman app into your Applications folder. MakeHuman™ supports Snow Leopard and newer.

Linux

Installers are avaiaible for debian (E.g Ubuntu, Debian etc.) and rpm based distributions (E.g Red-hat, Suse etc.). Please use the appropriate package for your distribution. If you do not want to use the prebuilt packages or are having trouble with the packages refer to "Installing from source" below.

Installing from source

If you want to install from source or are having trouble with the prepackaged binaries; Makehuman provides compressed source packages. These will work on all supported platforms provided all dependencies are satisfied. To execute MakeHuman simply run makehuman.py located in your unzipped makehuman source directory. For dependencies and libraries, please read the section "!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/doc/node/libraries_and_build_procedures.html -- Libraries and build procedures!/LINK!".