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title: Install UZDoom on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of UZDoom for Linux - Game engine for Classic
  Doom
url: https://snapcraft.io/uzdoom-alpo
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# UZDoom (uzdoom-alpo)

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latest/stable 5.0.3

Install latest/stable of UZDoom

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install uzdoom-alpo
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* uzdoom-alpo

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### License

* GPL-3.0

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### Last updated

* 10 October 2026 - latest/stable
* Today - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [zdoom.org](https://zdoom.org/index "https://zdoom.org/index")

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### Contact

* [github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap/issues](https://github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap/issues "https://github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap/issues")

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### Source code

* [github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom](https://github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom "https://github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom")
* [github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap](https://github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap "https://github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap/issues](https://github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap/issues "https://github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/uzdoom-alpo#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/uzdoom-alpo#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/uzdoom-alpo#tab-security)

#### Game engine for Classic Doom

**(This snap package is not supported by the upstream developers. Report issues to the snap bugtracker: <https://github.com/alponaut/uzdoom-snap/issues> )**

* Place WAD files into this directory: ~/snap/uzdoom-alpo/common/.local/share/games/uzdoom
* Config file is located in this directory: ~/snap/uzdoom-alpo/common/.config/uzdoom
* These directories will be automatically created after the app is first launched.

**For gamepad support, run:** `sudo snap connect uzdoom-alpo:joystick`

UZDoom is a source port for the modern era, supporting current hardware and operating systems
and sporting a vast array of user options. Make Doom your own again!

In addition to Doom, UZDoom supports Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Chex Quest, and fan-created
games like Harmony and Hacx. Meet the entire idTech 1 family!

Experience mind-bending user-created mods, made possible by ZDoom's advanced mapping features
and the ZScript language for complex game mechanics and behaviors. Or make a mod of your own!

* Can play all Doom engine games, including Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, and more
* Supports all the editing features of Hexen. (ACS, hubs, new map format, etc.)
* Supports most of the Boom editing features
* Features complete translations of Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Strife and other games into over ten different languages with Unicode support for Latin, Cyrillic, and Hangul so far
* All Doom limits are gone
* Several softsynths for MUS and MIDI playback, including an OPL softsynth for an authentic "oldschool" flavor
* High resolutions
* Quake-style console and key bindings
* Crosshairs
* Free look (look up/down)
* Jumping, crouching, swimming, and flying
* Network games for up to 64 players, including team-based gameplay
* Support for the Bloodbath announcer from the classic Monolith game Blood
* Walk over/under monsters and other things

Commercial data files are required to run the supported games. For more info about all
supported games and their data files, see Help -> List of supported games.

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## Install UZDoom on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/ubuntu)

[### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/uzdoom-alpo/raspbian)