OpenVSP should run on Windows without installation. Simply unzip the archive to the location of your choosing and double click vsp.exe.

If OpenVSP does not work on your installation, please report your problems to the mailing list.

Unzip the archive to the location of your choosing and run the vsp executable.

For Ubuntu 18.04, a deb package is available at the OpenVSP downloads page.

For other distributions, there are no pre-compiled Linux binaries produced at this time. In order to run OpenVSP on Linux, you must compile it yourself.

For RHEL 7 / CentOS 7, see the following: RH7 Instructions

To build a RPM file for installation on RedHat type machines, see the following rpm_instructions

For Debian based Linux distributions, see the following: Ubuntu Instructions

For ArchLinux and its derivatives, OpenVSP is available in the AUR as openvsp. It is recommended to install the package using an AUR helper such as yay.

To install OpenVSP on ArchLinux, simply run the following:

$ yay -S openvsp

This will pull all the dependencies needed to compile OpenVSP. Then it will automatically fetch, compile and install OpenVSP in your system.

OpenVSP is available from the FreeBSD's port collection. Installation instructions:

Method 1:
$ cd /usr/ports/cad/openvsp
$ make install (as root)

Method 2:
$ portinstall openvsp (as root)

This will pull all the dependencies needed to compile OpenVSP. Then it will automatically fetch, compile and install OpenVSP in your system.