Quickgui: A Flutter frontend for quickget
quickgui
A Flutter frontend for quickget.
Install
quickemu
For this tool to work, you need to have quickget, from the quickemu
package, in your current path.
Go to the quickemu github page
for more information about installing the tool.
Standard package
On Ubuntu, quickgui can be installed as a standard package.
First, add this ppa (this only needs to be done once) :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannick-mauray/quickgui
sudo apt update
Then, install the pacakge :
sudo apt install quickgui
Pre-compiled binary
- Download the binary.
- Uncompress the tarball wherever you want.
- From anywhere on the filesystem, run the app.
xz quickgui-a.b.c-d.tar.xz
tar xvf quickgui-a.b.c-d.tar
/path/to/quickgui
Alternativelly, use update-alternatives to install quickgui system-wide :
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/local/bin/quickgui quickgui /path/to/quickgui 50
Build
If you don’t want to run the binary, you can rebuild the application yourself :
- Set up Flutter
- Clone this repo,
- Switch to the project’s directory,
- Build the project,
- Run the app.
git clone https://github.com/ymauray/quickgui.git
cd quickgui
flutter build linux --release
./build/linux/x64/release/bundle/quickgui
You can also use update-alternatives for easier access to the app.
Usage
From the main screen, select the operating system you want to use. The list can be filtered.
Then, select the version :
If there are some options (Windows language, Pop!_OS nvidia or Intel, etc..), they will be displayed :
Then click “Download”. The ISO will be downloaded in the current working directory, in 99% of cases that will be the directory where quickgui was invoked from.