This page contains the downloadable files for a binary install on Linux, Windows and Mac
Unless you know exactly what you need, you are far better off downloading the same release files from the Wiki Release Page
Release Notes
New Features
- Allow --disableaccurateform switch for RasPiOS, this will prevent a small, non-responsive window appearing when you start tomboy-ng. Why ? Ask the RasPiOS developers.
- Tab key now creates Bullet or extends an existing Bullet (or extends an existing Indent).
- Shift-Tab to reduce Bullet or Indent.
- Ctrl-Tab to create Indent (but only one paragraph at a time).
- Indent now more compatible with original Tomboy. You can now open an note from the old Tomboy and indents at the start of a paragraph will appear as intended. However, indents (ie tabs) in the middle of a paragraph will not, eg, create columns of text.
- Github Sync now allows tokens without an expiry date.
- CLI option, -c, to create new note, eg with Operating System Hot Key.
- Linux Qt5 and Qt6 packages require their respective libQtxPas libraries. Most older Linux distributions have out of date versions of these libraries, the known exceptions being Ubuntu 24.04, 24.10, Debian Trixie, Fedora 41+ and up to date Arch based systems. See below for where to get current libraries -
https://github.com/davidbannon/libqt5pas/releases
https://github.com/davidbannon/libqt6pas/releases
AppImage (Linux)
I now provide two AppImage files that can be downloaded directly, marked as executable and, possibly run directly without any further install. There are a few things to note -
- Will work on Linux Distros as old as Ubuntu 20.04. The Qt5 version will work in Debian Bullseye but not the Qt6 version.
- Like all AppImages, the download will need to be marked executable, the download process removes that attribute.
$>chmod u+x tomboy-ng--x86_64-Qt5.AppImage <enter> - These packages were built on an Ubuntu 20.04 system (and therefore contains libraries from U20.04) and are not guaranteed to work on significantly older systems. I note the the Qt5 version works fine on Debian 11 Bullseye but the Qt6 one does not.
- Both packages are around 35Meg
- On newer Ubuntu systems, the app may fail to start with a message mentioning fuse, a library to allow user level file system mounting. (Ubuntu of course have their own bundling system, Snaps.) The necessary library is easily added
$>sudo apt install install libfuse2t64 - Argon (and reportedly other OpenSUSE systems) also need fuse, install with
$> sudo zypper install fuse libfuse2 - Your feedback about the use of AppImage would be appreciated.
Note 1 : The pacman package is, of necessity, built on a system that used glibc v2.36 or later and the binary will not work on systems running glibc less than v2.34. In a pacman world I expect this not to be a problem but if I'm wrong, please let me know.
Note 2 : Github likes to hide the download files. Please click the word "Assets" immediately below here and, perhaps "Show all assets" below the list of download files if you don't see the one you want.