Installation

Once installed, have a look at the Quick Start Guide.

Installing a Pre-built Release

To acquire a pre-built copy of Datui, you may download one from the Datui Releases Page on GitHub.

There is a dev release that tracks the latest development build. This release will have the freshest features but may be less stable.

Datui is available in the Arch User Repository as datui-bin. Install it with an AUR helper such as paru or yay:

paru -S datui-bin

yay -S datui-bin

Datui is not yet available in the any of the offical repositores for RPM-based distributions.

Get the link to the .rpm file for the release version you want from the Releases Page.

Use dnf to install that link.

dnf install https://github.com/derekwisong/datui/releases/download/vX.Y.Z/datui-X.Y.Z-1.x86_64.rpm

Datui is not yet available in the any of the offical repositores for Deb-based distributions.

Download the .deb file for the release version you want from the Releases Page.

Use apt to install that file:

apt install ./datui-X.Y.Z-1.x86_64.deb

Datui is built using Rust, leveraging its Cargo toolkit for compilation.

To compile a release-quality executable, clone the repository and use cargo to build:

git clone https://github.com/derekwisong/datui.git
cd datui
cargo build --release

If desired, before building you could check out a specific release tag

git tag --list
git checkout <tag from the list>
cargo build --release

The datui executable can be found in the target/release directory.

Run it directly, or copy the file to a location on your PATH environment variable to make it discoverable by your terminal.

You may use cargo to install Datui locally into Cargo’s binary cache. (The ~/.cargo/bin directory on Linux).

cargo install --path .

To run the application you will need to add the Cargo bin directory to your PATH.

On Linux: export PATH=$PATH:~/.cargo/bin