QuillArk for Windows and Linux

Installing on Linux

On Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian, install the .deb with your package manager. Using apt rather than dpkg -i lets it fetch any system library you are missing instead of stopping:

sudo apt install ./quillark_1.4.0_amd64.deb

You can also just double-click the file. QuillArk then appears in your applications menu, and quillark works from a terminal.

On any other 64-bit Linux, extract the tarball and run ./run.sh. It runs from wherever you put it and installs nothing. If you would rather install it properly, the same folder has an install.sh — run it with sudo and it puts QuillArk in /opt and adds the menu entry. uninstall.sh takes it back out.

Two honest notes

The Linux packages are cross-built on Windows. The application inside is a genuine Linux x86-64 build and the archives are written with correct Unix permissions, but they have not been run on a Linux desktop by the author before release. If something does not work, it is worth telling us rather than assuming it is you.

Running the tarball without installing means Chromium's sandbox helper cannot be given the permissions it needs, so run.sh starts QuillArk with the sandbox off and prints a line saying so. Installing — with the .deb or with install.sh — restores it. QuillArk loads no remote content either way.

Nothing here is code-signed

Windows

A signing certificate has to be bought and tied to a legal identity, and QuillArk does not have one, so Windows SmartScreen will show a warning the first time you run the installer.

That warning means “Windows has not seen this file before”. It does not mean the file is unsafe, and it does not mean it has been checked and found wanting. Choose More info and then Run anyway if you are satisfied you got the file from the right place — which is what the checksum above is for.

Linux

The .deb is not signed by a repository either, so your package manager will say it comes from an unknown source. That is expected for a package downloaded directly rather than installed from a repository, and the checksum above is how you confirm you have the file we published.

We would rather say this plainly than let you meet it unprepared. If QuillArk is signed in a future release, this section will say so.