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c0xc / CapacityTester

Use CapacityTester to check if your USB thumb/flash drive lies about its capacity. Graphical tool to detect fake USB drives.
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Install on Ubuntu #2

Closed manurafal closed 1 year ago

manurafal commented 4 years ago

I am sorry I am new to ubuntu and I try to install its application, but I do not get it, could you indicate the steps for all those who started in ubuntu and do not know how to install your application? I have ubuntu 18.4

Thanks a lot

c0xc commented 4 years ago

This is a standalone tool, so I have not written an official install routine. If you have a Qt build environment, you should be able to run qmake && make to build the binary. Or you could download a release with a pre-compiled binary, for example the first Debian 7 release, but that's not guaranteed to work. Consider it to be a sort of lazy approach - set the executable bit on the file (Caja properties dialog or chmod +x ~/bin/CapacityTester) and run it.

To install it manually, I suggest you copy the binary to your ~/bin/ directory and make sure that directory is in your PATH (run echo $PATH in a terminal to check). If not, adding the following lines to your profile (~/.profile, depending on your setup) would be a typical approach:

# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
export PATH
c0xc commented 4 years ago

Well... Of course, most end users don't have a Qt build environment. And if you don't have the Qt5 libraries installed either (which might be provided by qt5-default), you wouldn't be able to run the binary from the Debian 7 release I mentioned either. As an alternative, I might create another release with a binary linked to a static Qt build.

Anyway. Please clarify your question and copy whatever error messages you're getting.

c0xc commented 1 year ago

There's an AppImage executable now. If you think there should be an installable Flatpak, open an issue.