TabDesk – installation (Debian / Kali / Ubuntu) ================================================ Version: 0.2.1 Quickest – all in one (fetches the key, checks it, installs): curl -fsSL https://cdn.thern.io/tabdesk/install.sh | sudo bash To read the script first: curl -fsSL https://cdn.thern.io/tabdesk/install.sh -o td.sh less td.sh sudo bash td.sh Step by step ------------ The commands below are deliberately written without variables. The lines get long, but copy the whole line – a half-pasted variable line leaves an empty [signed-by=] and the error "Malformed entry 1 in list file". 1) Fetch the signing key to a temporary file: curl -fsSL https://cdn.thern.io/tabdesk/tabdesk-archive-keyring.gpg -o /tmp/td.gpg 2) Check that it really IS the key – before it is written: gpg --show-keys /tmp/td.gpg Should show the fingerprint B40E D009 54B3 B564 21F5 8C99 B9D4 4CBC 6F2B D93E and "TabDesk APT repository ". Anything else: stop here, nothing has been written yet. 3) Put the key in place: sudo install -m644 /tmp/td.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/tabdesk.gpg 4) Apt source (a single line): echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tabdesk.gpg] https://cdn.thern.io/tabdesk stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tabdesk.list 5) Install: sudo apt update && sudo apt install tabdesk Update: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade tabdesk Uninstall: sudo apt remove tabdesk Direct .deb: https://cdn.thern.io/tabdesk/pool/main/t/tabdesk/tabdesk_0.2.1_amd64.deb Tarball (no apt, for non-Debian): https://cdn.thern.io/tabdesk/tabdesk-0.2.1.tar.gz tar xzf tabdesk-0.2.1.tar.gz ./tabdesk-0.2.1/tabdesk The tarball only unpacks and runs – no apt source, so no updates and no dependencies installed for you. The following must already be on the machine: xterm, xdotool, python3-gi, libgtk-3-0, libnss3, libxss1, libxtst6, libsecret-1-0, libnotify4. If the app does not start, run ./tabdesk-0.2.1/tabdesk from a terminal and read the error line – a missing library shows up there. If something went wrong ----------------------- "Malformed entry 1 in list file ... ([option] no value)" The source file contains [signed-by=] with no value – step 4 was pasted incompletely. Check with: cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tabdesk.list The line must contain the full path to the key. The easiest fix is to let the script rewrite the file: curl -fsSL https://cdn.thern.io/tabdesk/install.sh | sudo bash Parse error about the keyring from apt Then /usr/share/keyrings/tabdesk.gpg is not a key, but most likely an HTML page. See the next section – delete the file and run the script above. NOTE if you got these instructions by email ------------------------------------------- Do NOT pipe the key straight into the keyring. Mail clients rewrite links (Gmail turns the URL into www.google.com/url?q=...). Such a link answers 200 with an HTML page, curl accepts it, and the HTML ends up in the keyring. The only symptom is a parse error from apt that does not point at the cause. Check the key first, then write it. If a link above looks like it goes to www.google.com instead of cdn.thern.io – type the address by hand. The repository is open. The source lives at https://github.com/TheJonaz/tabdesk under the MIT licence.