Latest Version: 2.6.2 ‒ February 18, 2025
1. Select Your Operating System
openSUSE
Make sure your openSUSE installation is fully up to date before installing the latest Banshee!
For other SUSE distributions:
- openSUSE Tumbleweed: 1-Click Install | Repository
- openSUSE Factory: 1-Click Install | Repository
Ubuntu
Banshee is a default app on Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10. Ubuntu has a policy of not updating the version of a shipped application, so the version available in the default repository might be old. Note that Canonical modifies our code to take a 75% cut of our Amazon affiliate revenue. If you use Banshee from the community PPA below, 100% of the affiliate revenue will go to GNOME.
To add the community-run Banshee Team PPA:- In a terminal, run
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa - Then install or update Banshee
Foresight
- Banshee is the default media player on Foresight Linux.
- Install or update
bansheefrom PackageKit, or in a terminal type,sudo conary update banshee
Fedora
- Install via yum:
yum install banshee - View Fedora's Banshee package page
Debian
- Unstable / Lenny:
apt-get install banshee
Mandriva
- Spring 2008 (latest stable release): Enable the
/contrib/backportsrepository and install thebanshee-1package - The
bansheepackage provides the legacy 0.13.x series Banshee - Details on enabling /contrib/backports
Slackware
- Slackware64-current: Install a package manager (slapt-get has been tested)
- Enter the repository into the configuration file of the package manager. For slapt-get, this is:
SOURCE=http://schmatzler.de/my_slackbuilds/banshee/:OFFICIAL - Install all listed packages:
Cython ORBit2 avahi banshee banshee-community-extensions boo cracklib dbus-sharp dbus-sharp-glib gdata-sharp gio-sharp gkeyfile-sharp gnome-disk-utility gstreamer1 gst-plugins-base1 gst-plugins-good1 gst-plugins-bad1 gst-plugins-ugly1 gst-libav1 gtk-sharp gtk-sharp-beans gudev-sharp lame libgdiplus libgpod-sharp libimobiledevice libmodplug libplist1 libpwquality libunique libwebp mono mono-addins mono-zeroconf newtonsoft-json soundtouch taglib-sharp taoframework usbmuxd webkitgtk - The
bansheepackage provides the stable 2.6.x series with gstreamer 1.x backports. Please don't file gstreamer-related bugs for banshee when using this package. - Official support thread on linuxquestions.org
Mac OS X
This release is a beta-quality technology preview with only partial device support (only mass storage devices), no CD support, or video support. We encourage you to test and report issues. Banshee for OS X is not yet as complete or as stable as our Linux releases.
Banshee for OS X runs on Intel 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion). OS X 10.6 and older and the PowerPC architecture are not supported.
- Install Banshee 2.6.1
Windows
This release is a alpha-quality technology preview with many known bugs and deficiencies, including some obvious, glaring ones. With that in mind, please test it and file any new bugs you find. If you are a developer, you can help us improve the Windows build.
Banshee for Windows should run on Windows XP or newer.
- Install Banshee 2.4.0
Source Releases
- The latest stable release of Banshee is version 2.6.2 released on February 18, 2020.
- Download Source Tarball
- See older releases
Beta Releases
- SUSE
- Ubuntu
Snapshot/Alpha Releases
- Ubuntu
Development Version
See getting the development version for more information.

