Installation

Download a release from the releases page.

Platform	File
Windows (64-bit)	cde-<version>-win-x64.zip
Linux (64-bit)	cde-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz

Each file has a .sha256 checksum beside it.

There is no installer. Extract the archive and run the programs. The cde and cdeWin executables are single files that you can copy anywhere.

Windows

1. Before you extract the zip, right-click it, choose Properties, tick Unblock, then click OK.
2. Extract the zip.
3. Open a terminal in the cde folder and run cde --help.

The executables are not signed

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" with the publisher "Unknown publisher". Click More info, then Run anyway. Unblocking the zip first (step 1) stops the warning for every file.

If Smart App Control is on (Windows 11), Windows can block unsigned apps with no option to run them.

You can check the release build pipeline to see that the release is compiled in CI from the source.

Linux

See Linux.

Check the install

cde --help
cde --version

cde --help lists every command. cde <command> --help shows the options of one command.