Xara Xtreme FOR LINUX

Xara Xtreme is quite simply the best value and fastest all-in-one graphics package you’ll find. For drawings or photo work, for print or the web, it’s the perfect choice.

You can download a version of Xara Xtreme for Linux right now, which should work straight away on most Linux machines (note: this is not source code - you don't have to build it to try it, for source code look here). Development is progressing daily, so we provide two versions for download. The first is the recommended download because it will normally be the most stable. The second is the very latest, untested version, built and published automatically - the cutting edge version of Xara Xtreme, so at times it may be unstable.
The easiest and recommended way to install Xara Xtreme on your system is to download and install the Autopackage archive (.package file). Click here for Autopackage installation instructions. Alternatively, download and unpack one of the tar archives (see tar archive instructions below).

Xara Xtreme on Linux is now a working drawing tool. The archives below include the full Xara Xtreme help.

Recommended version:
» Download Xara Xtreme (version 0.7 Revision 1692) (Autopackage Archive - 19MB)
» Download Xara Xtreme (version 0.7 Revision 1692) (Tar Bzip2 Archive - 19MB)

Latest version (potentially unstable):
» Download Xara Xtreme (version 0.7 Revision 1785 Built 07-Nov-07 3:00) (Autopackage Archive - 20MB)
» Download Xara Xtreme (version 0.7 Revision 1785 Built 07-Nov-07 3:00) (Tar Bzip2 Archive - 19MB)

What can Xara Xtreme on Linux do?

 

Xara Xtreme on Linux is now close to having all the features of the Windows version. Click here for a long list of it's current capabilities.

Tar Archive Installation Instructions on Linux on 32 bit x86 architecture (i.e. most PC linux)

If you don't want to use the Autopackage provided, download one of the tar files instead and unpack it using the following tar command (the archive is bzip2 compressed):-

tar xvjf xaralx0.7_rev1692.tar.bz2

This will give you a xaralx directory which contains the xaralx executable and supporting files. Just run bin/xaralx. There is also an 'Examples' subfolder containing a bunch of example designs (XAR files). Use the File, Open menu option to open a XAR file.
The binaries we distribute require libstdc++ version 5, which is not installed as standard on some modern distributions (for example Ubuntu 5.10). To install this library you will need to install a compatibility package using your distributions package manager (called something like libstdc++5 or compat-libstdc++-33).  This is not neccessary if you install using the Autopackage archive as Autopackage takes care of this automatically.