Download Paratext for Linux

For Linux

The recommended version of Linux for all versions of Paratext is Wasta-Linux 18.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic). Wasta-Linux is a variant of Ubuntu customized to make installing SIL language software easier. It uses the same version numbers as Ubuntu.

	Paratext 9	Paratext 8	Paratext 7.x [deprecated]
Wasta or Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) or Linux Mint 20	YES	NO	NO
Wasta or Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) or Linux Mint 19	YES	YES	NO
Wasta or Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) or Linux Mint 18	NO	YES	YES
Wasta or Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) or Linux Mint 17	NO	NO	YES

  Paratext, a joint project of SIL and UBS,  can be downloaded from the SIL Linux repository.  You can either use the software or package manager to find the Paratext versions you wish to download, or download Paratext with a terminal command like sudo apt install paratext-9.0 (for Paratext 9).  See packages.sil.org for instructions how to do this. (Instructions in more details here: SIL Linux repository — detailed instructions).