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.