NetHack 3.6.1: Download the Source

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NetHack source is also available from our git repository.

To download a tarball of the NetHack code as of the 3.6.1 release:

Step 1: download.
Click on the link below to download NetHack. Depending on your browser you may need to right-click so that the file is saved to disk and not displayed.

nethack-361-src.tgz (about 4.5M) (MD5 sum: 5c469058a0d2876c274c102d56f47bb5)
NetHack 3.6.1 source release.

Download this file
Step 2: unpack.

NetHack is shipped in a single archive created with tar and then shrunk with gzip. To unpack under Unix, the following commands should be executed in an empty directory:
```
	gzcat nethack-361-src.tgz > nethack-361-src.tar
	tar xf nethack-361-src.tar
```
Some versions of Linux do not have a gzcat command. Use the following commands instead:
```
	gzip -dc nethack-361-src.tgz > nethack-361-src.tar
        tar xf nethack-361-src.tar
```
The gzip package (containing gzip, gunzip, and gzcat) may be obtained from the Free Software Foundation. A version of tar is also available from the same site.
Step 3: build.
See the file README in the top level directory unpacked in Step 2 for build instructions for the various operating systems.

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