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BORIS for Linux

Current version: v. 9.3.2 release date: 2025-04-14

Kindly acknowledge and properly cite this software and its authors when using the results in publications or other forms of dissemination:

Friard, O. and Gamba, M.,
BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations.
(2016) Methods Ecol Evol, 7: 1325–1330.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12584
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12584/abstract

Requirements

BORIS requires the installation of:

Open a terminal and type: (1)

  1. If you do not know how to open a terminal, see Ubuntu terminal or Linux Mint terminal
sudo apt install libmpv2 ffmpeg graphviz libxcb-cursor0 

# your password will be required

Open a terminal and type:

su
# your root password will be required

apt install libmpv2 ffmpeg graphviz libxcb-cursor0

Run BORIS

Download the BORIS AppImage 64-bit v.9.3.2

Make it executable (1)

  1. See a complete AppImage guide

Run it with a double-click

This AppImage should run on recent versions of Linux. It was tested on the following distributions:

  • Ubuntu 20.10+

  • Debian12+

  • Linux Mint 21+

  • Linux Mint Debian Edition 6

If the AppImage cannot be launched on your Linux distribution/version try to run BORIS from source code