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Linux

A release has cde-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz (with a .sha256 file) for 64-bit Linux. It holds:

  • cde/: the cde command line program and its appsettings.json;
  • cde-tauri/: the cde-tauri application and its cdeApi helper.

There is no cdeWin, because it is a Windows Forms application. There are no installers: extract the archive and run the programs.

sha256sum -c cde-2.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz.sha256
tar -xzf cde-2.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd cde-2.1.0-linux-x64/cde
./cde --help

Notes​

  • cde finds its settings itself, so you can run it from any folder. On the first run it writes a default appsettings.json to ~/.config/cde/ (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cde/). Set CDE_CONFIG_DIR to use another folder. See Configuration.

  • cde-tauri needs the system libraries for its web view. On Debian and Ubuntu:

    sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 libayatana-appindicator3-1

    Other distributions have packages with similar names (WebKitGTK 4.1).

  • The archive is built on Ubuntu 22.04, so you need a glibc at least as new as that one.

  • Catalog files are named after the scan path. cde scan /mnt/data makes mnt_data.cdex. See Catalog files.

  • cde scan skips some system folders by default. See Configuration.

Known limit

In cde-tauri on Linux, Open, Explore and Properties do nothing, and neither do custom shell commands.