czkawka Installation

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Requirements
Linux

If you use Snap, Flatpak or Appimage, you need to only install ffmpeg if you want to use Similar Videos tool.

For Czkawka GUI the lowest supported version of GTK is 3.24 which is the only required dependency(of course on Ubuntu, different distributions will probably require a little different set of dependences).
In app exists Similar Video tool which require FFmpeg to work, but is completelly optional and without it, only warning would be printed when trying to use this tool without installed ffmpeg.
Broken files finder by default don’t check for music files, but it is possible to enable this feature and that require to have alsa lib installed(on Ubuntu this is libasound2-dev package)
Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint

sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev ffmpeg

Fedora/Rocky Linux

sudo yum install gtk3-devel glib2-devel
sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm-Esudodnf-yinstallhttps://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -y install ffmpeg

Void Linux (CLI only)

sudo xbps-install gcc pkg-config ffmpeg

macOS

Currently, you need to manually install GTK 3 libraries, FFmpeg and the Adwaita theme, because they are dynamically loaded from the OS.
One very straight-forward way to do this is by using Homebrew.
Installation in the terminal:

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”
brew install gtk+3 adwaita-icon-theme ffmpeg librsvg

After that, go to the location where you downloaded Czkawka and add the executable permission to this file.

chmod +x mac_czkawka_gui

At the end execute it:

./mac_czkawka_gui

Warning
Prebuilt binaries are available only for x86_64, so if you use ARM machine like e.g. Mac M1, you need to compile manually app or install special version of required libraries which can be done via this:

arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew install gtk+3 adwaita-icon-theme ffmpeg librsvg

Windows

By default, all needed libraries are bundled with the app, inside windows_czkawka_gui.zip, but if you compile the app or just move czkawka_gui.exe, then you will need to install the GTK 3 runtime from here.

FFmpeg to be able to use Similar Videos, you can download and install from this link.
Installation
Precompiled binaries

Ready-to-go executables for Linux, Windows and macOS are available here.
If the app does not run when clicking the launcher, run it through a terminal.
You don’t need to have any additional libraries for CLI Czkawka.
Nightly Builds

Artifacts from each commit can be downloaded here
Appimage

Appimage files are available in release page - GitHub releases
Available are 2 versions of Appimage:

default - which bundle gtk theme
alternative - which don’t include any gtk specific libraries

Cargo

The easiest method to install Czkawka is using the cargo command. To compile it, you need to get all the requirements from the compilation section.

cargo install czkawka_gui
cargo install czkawka_cli

You can update the package with the same command.
Snap

sudo snap install czkawka

By default, Snap can only access the files in your home directory. You have to allow Czkawka access to all the drives:

sudo snap connect czkawka:removable-media

The Snap store entry can be found here.

Fresh builds are available in edge branch, but they may be a little unstable.
Flatpak

flatpak install flathub com.github.qarmin.czkawka

Flathub page with Czkawka can be found here

Unofficial packages, which may not always provide the latest version of Czkawka.
PPA - Debian/Ubuntu (unofficial)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install czkawka

alternatively you can use instruction from this xtradeb site
AUR - Arch Linux Package (unofficial)

Czkawka is also available in Arch Linux’s AUR from which it can be easily installed.

yay -Syu czkawka-gui
yay -Syu czkawka-cli

or

yay -Syu czkawka-gui-bin
yay -Syu czkawka-cli-bin

Packages info
Docker image (unofficial)

Czkawka docker image is available here
Chocolatey (unofficial)

Windows Chocolatey binaries are available here

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