Linux

Installing Grabber on Linux

Via the AppImage

1. Go to the latest release here
2. Download the .AppImage file
3. Make it executable using the command:

   chmod +x Grabber_*-x86_64.AppImage
   

4. Double click on the AppImage file to start Grabber

Via the pre-built binary archive

1. Go to the latest release here
2. Download the .tar.gz file
3. Extract it anywhere using the command:

   tar -xzf Grabber_*.tar.gz
   

4. Launch the Grabber executable to start Grabber

Info

Grabber requires Qt5 libraries to run. If you see a "error while loading shared libraries" error, make sure you have the Qt5 packages installed. On Ubuntu, they can be installed with:

sudo apt install libqt5gui5 libqt5qml5 libqt5xml5 libqt5networkauth5 libqt5sql5 libqt5multimedia5 libqt5multimediawidgets5

Via the AUR (Arch Linux)

Grabber has packages on the AUR for Arch Linux:

• imgbrd-grabber-bin which pulls the latest tar.gz release.
• imgbrd-grabber-appimage which pulls the latest appimage release.
• imgbrd-grabber which builds the package from source.

You can install Grabber by running this command, substituting the package you want to install:

paru -Sy imgbrd-grabber-bin

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Last update: August 17, 2023