elio

INSTALL

Install elio

Use your preferred package manager.

Arch

Install from the AUR

paru -S elio

Optional preview tools

sudo pacman -S poppler ffmpeg resvg 7zip

Fedora

Official COPR package

sudo dnf copr enable miguelregueiro/elio
sudo dnf install elio

Optional preview tools

sudo dnf install poppler-utils ffmpeg resvg 7zip

Full FFmpeg may require RPM Fusion on Fedora.

Debian and Ubuntu-based Linux

Official apt repository

Option 1 — Quick install

curl -fsSL https://elio-fm.github.io/elio-apt/install.sh | sudo sh
sudo apt install elio

Option 2 — Manual setup

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://elio-fm.github.io/elio-apt/elio-archive-keyring.gpg \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/elio-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null

echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/elio-archive-keyring.gpg] \
https://elio-fm.github.io/elio-apt stable main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elio.list

sudo apt update
sudo apt install elio

Optional preview tools

sudo apt install poppler-utils ffmpeg resvg 7zip

resvg availability varies by distro release. Without it, elio still works; SVG previews use fallback paths when available.

Homebrew

Install from Homebrew

brew install elio

Optional preview tools

brew install poppler ffmpeg resvg sevenzip

Cargo

Cross-platform install from crates.io

cargo install elio