Pre-built Releases¶

All release assets are available at the GitHub Releases page.

Linux¶

Native binary tarballs¶

Distro-native binaries link against your distro's leptonica version, avoiding ABI mismatches.

File	Distro
`rustylens-linux-x86_64-arch.tar.gz`	Arch Linux, Garuda, Manjaro (leptonica 1.84+)
`rustylens-linux-x86_64-ubuntu.tar.gz`	Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS
`rustylens-linux-x86_64-fedora.tar.gz`	Fedora, RHEL, Rocky, AlmaLinux, Nobara
`rustylens-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	Generic (same as ubuntu build, for compatibility)

Install the runtime libraries for your distro, then extract:

ArchDebian / UbuntuFedora

sudo pacman -S leptonica tesseract tesseract-data-eng
tar xzf rustylens-linux-x86_64-arch.tar.gz
install -Dm755 rustylens ~/.local/bin/rustylens

sudo apt install libleptonica-dev libtesseract-dev tesseract-ocr-eng
tar xzf rustylens-linux-x86_64-ubuntu.tar.gz
install -Dm755 rustylens ~/.local/bin/rustylens

sudo dnf install leptonica tesseract tesseract-langpack-eng
tar xzf rustylens-linux-x86_64-fedora.tar.gz
install -Dm755 rustylens ~/.local/bin/rustylens

To register the desktop entry and icon:

install -Dm644 data/io.github.pranavk_official.RustyLens.desktop \
  ~/.local/share/applications/io.github.pranavk_official.RustyLens.desktop
install -Dm644 data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/io.github.pranavk_official.RustyLens.svg \
  ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/io.github.pranavk_official.RustyLens.svg

AppImage¶

The AppImage bundles GTK4, libadwaita, leptonica, and tesseract — no system OCR libraries required. Works on any glibc-based distro.

chmod +x RustyLens-x86_64.AppImage
./RustyLens-x86_64.AppImage

Install to PATH for system-wide access:

install -Dm755 RustyLens-x86_64.AppImage ~/.local/bin/rustylens

Note

The AppImage does not bundle Tesseract language packs. Install them separately or let install.sh -A handle it.

Flatpak¶

The Flatpak bundle is fully sandboxed and includes all 128 Tesseract tessdata_fast language packs. No additional packages required.

flatpak install --user rustylens.flatpak
flatpak run io.github.pranavk_official.RustyLens

macOS (experimental)¶

RustyLens-<arch>-apple-darwin.dmg

Mount the DMG and drag RustyLens to your Applications folder. Tesseract language packs must be installed separately (brew install tesseract-lang).

Windows (experimental)¶

rustylens-windows-x86_64.zip

Extract the zip. All required DLLs and English tessdata are included in the archive.