Installation - Linus-Mussmaecher/rucola GitHub Wiki

The many different ways to install rucola. The program is provided for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Installation from the AUR is only possible on Linux, but all other methods are platform independent.

Note that in any case, some sort of Nerd font will be required to properly display some of the icons.

Installation Scripts & Tarballs

For installation instructions via shell script, .msi, homebrew or tarball, see the latest release. These installers are generated using cargo dist and are provided for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Packages

Install rucola from the official Arch User Repositories using pacman:

pacman -S rucola

Install from TUR using pkg to use rucola on Android devices:

  # First enable the TUR repo in Termux
  pkg install tur-repo
  pkg install rucola

Install for NetBSD using pkgin:

 pkgin install rucola

Rucola is also packaged for some other distributions as seen on the right.

Crates.io

Install using cargo from crates.io:

 cargo install --locked rucola-notes

Manual Build

If you want to build the latest commit of rucola by yourself, you can clone the repository, build & install:

 git clone https://github.com/Linus-Mussmaecher/rucola
 cd rucola
 cargo install --locked --path .

Pre-Built Binaries

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/Linus-Mussmaecher/rucola/releases/download/v0.7.0/rucola-notes-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/Linus-Mussmaecher/rucola/releases/download/v0.7.0/rucola-notes-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install Linus-Mussmaecher/tap/rucola