The installer script installs Jacksum and HashGarten which allow accessing Jacksum's primary features from the GNU/Linux file browser/file manager's script menu.

• A GNU/Linux or Unix operating system

• A graphical desktop user interface

• bash v3 or later, or zsh

• At least one of the supported file browsers below

• A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Developement Kit (JDK) with graphical libraries, version 11 or later. Note: a headless OpenJDK is not suitable to run the HashGarten GUI.

• jacksum-3.7.0.jar, HashGarten-0.18.0.jar and flatlaf-3.5.2.jar (all jars are part of the installation tarball)

The installation script has been tested successfully for many file browsers on many systems. If the API has not changed, the script should work with later minor or patch versions as well. See also the head of the installer script for details.

If your preferred file manager is not listed below, chances are high that your file manager supports at least drag & drop, so you could use drag & drop to transfer file/directory-paths from your file manager to the HashGarten GUI where you can process data further, e. g. calculate hashes from file/directory-paths.

Go to https://github.com/jonelo/jacksum-for-linux/releases and download the .tar.bz2 file.

On most GNU/Linux derivates, and on macOS you can enter

$ tar xfvj jacksum*.tar.bz2 ; cd jacksum-for-linux/

On most Unix derivates, such as Sun/Oracle Solaris you can enter

$ bunzip2 < jacksum*.tar.bz2 | tar xfv - ; cd jacksum-for-linux/

The installation script is an interactive text user interface that allows you to install Jacksum and HashGarten in your file manager. It also allows uninstalling it again safely and completely. You can run the script as often as you want. If a file manager is not detected on your system, it is marked as DISABLED.

Please go to https://github.com/jonelo/jacksum-for-linux/issues

On systems without KDE, you need to install both the krusader and the kf5-config package in order to make it work.

Most likely, you are running a non-supported file manager. If you think it should be supported, please file a feature request. Please note that the file browser must support sending highlighted files or directories or selected files or directories to a 3rd party application such as a script.

$ sudo apt install openjdk-21-jre

You just need to enter /usr/bin/java (or hit Enter) if the jacksum-file-browser-integration.sh asks you for the java command:

$ ./jacksum-for-linux.sh
...
Type the absolute path to "java"
and press "Enter" to continue [/usr/bin/java]: 

You could use the update_jdk script from the bashberries project in order to get a suitable JDK. The following example downloads Temurin 21 (that is the JDK 21 from adoptium), and installs it to /opt/java/jdk_latest:

$ sudo ./update_jdk -s "https://github.com/adoptium/temurin21-binaries/releases/download/jdk-21.0.2%2B13/OpenJDK21U-jdk_x64_linux_hotspot_21.0.2_13.tar.gz" -t jdk /opt/java

You just need to enter /opt/java/jdk_latest/bin/java if the jacksum-file-browser-integration.sh asks you for the java command:

$ ./jacksum-for-linux.sh
...
Type the absolute path to "java"
and press "Enter" to continue [/usr/bin/java]: /opt/java/jdk_latest/bin/java

For more information about Jacksum see also https://jacksum.net or https://github.com/jonelo/jacksum

For more information about HashGarten see also https://jacksum.net or https://github.com/jonelo/HashGarten

There are also File Browser Integration scripts available for both Microsoft Windows, see also https://github.com/jonelo/jacksum-for-windows, and macOS, see also https://github.com/jonelo/jacksum-for-macos

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