Installing labelbuddy
Installing a binary copy
On Ubuntu
Packages built for different Ubuntu distributions are published on this Personal Package Archive. Add it to your system by executing:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:jdockes/labelbuddy sudo apt-get update
Then the latest release of labelbuddy (and any future releases) can be installed with:
sudo apt-get install labelbuddy
If you don’t want to add the PPA to your sources list you can manually choose and download one of the published packages, then install it with apt:
sudo apt install ./labelbuddy_<version>.deb
On Debian
Binary packages can be downloaded from the releases page on GitHub.
Once you have downloaded the package, you can install it with apt:
sudo apt install ./labelbuddy_<version>.deb
On Windows
Select the latest release from here, and download and run labelbuddy_<version>_windows_installer.exe (ignore Windows’ security warnings).
labelbuddy can be uninstalled from the Windows applications menu, or by running the maintenancetool.exe executable found in the labelbuddy installation folder.
An alternative to using the installer is to download labelbuddy_windows.zip, unzip it anywhere, then execute the file labelbuddy.exe that it contains to start labelbuddy.
On MacOS
Select the latest release from here, and download labelbuddy_<version>.dmg.
Double-click the downloaded file, and from the window that opens drag labelbuddy into the /Applications folder in Finder.
Building from source
Download a source distribution from GitHub, the labelbuddy PPA, or get the latest code by cloning or downloading the labelbuddy git repository.
labelbuddy uses Qt 5. Qt can probably be installed with your package manager, for example:
apt-get install qt5-default
or
yum install qt5-qtbase yum install qt5-qtbase-devel
Otherwise you can get it from the Qt downloads page.
labelbuddy can be built with CMake. In an empty directory run:
cmake /path/to/labelbuddy cmake --build .
Then labelbuddy can (optionally) be installed with:
sudo make install
labelbuddy can also be built with qmake:
qmake /path/to/labelbuddy make
Building labelbuddy should be straightforward, so if you run into any difficulties please open a GitHub issue.