- Qbs Manual
- Installing
- Qbs 1.21.0

Setup ◦ Configuring Profiles and Preferences

# Installing

Qbs binaries are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.

On all platforms, Qbs binaries are part of the Qt Creator and Qt SDK installers. You can find the `qbs` executable in the `bin` directory of Qt Creator, or within the application bundle's `MacOS` directory on macOS.

Qbs can also be built locally from sources. For more information, see Appendix A: Building Qbs.

## Windows

The Qt Project provides prebuilt binaries for Windows (x86 and x64) at https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qbs/. For commercial customers of The Qt Company, the binaries are available in the Qt Account. The binaries are packaged in a .zip folder that can be extracted to a location of your choice.

Qbs is also available as a Chocolatey package, which can be installed in the usual way:

     choco install qbs

The `.nupkg` file can also be downloaded directly from https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qbs/ for offline installation.

## macOS

Qbs can be conveniently installed on macOS with the MacPorts or Homebrew package managers:

     brew install qbs

or

     port install qbs

## Linux and FreeBSD

Qbs is available via the package management systems of Linux distributions, and FreeBSD.

Setup ◦ Configuring Profiles and Preferences