Installing

The client runs on Linux and Windows, on x64 and arm64 processors. It brings everything it needs; no .NET or other runtime has to be installed.

Apt install

On Debian and Ubuntu, x64 and arm64, install from the apt repository of Uniform Chat, which is kept in its releases on GitHub. Add the repository once, with the key its packages are signed with:

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://github.com/tagcode/Uniform.Chat/releases/latest/download/uniform-chat-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/uniform-chat.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/uniform-chat.gpg] https://github.com/tagcode/Uniform.Chat/releases/ latest/download/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/uniform-chat.list
sudo apt update

Then install the client:

sudo apt install uniform-chat-terminal

Start it with the command uniform-chat-terminal. sudo apt upgrade updates it with the rest of the system. sudo apt remove uniform-chat-terminal removes it, but not your account and messages in ~/.local/share/uniform-chat-terminal.

From the release archives

Download uniform-chat-terminal-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz (or linux-arm64, or win-x64.zip and win-arm64.zip for Windows) from the releases and unpack it anywhere. The program is Uniform.Chat, or Uniform.Chat.exe on Windows. The docs folder in it has this guide; open docs/index.html in a browser.

From source

Install the .NET 10 SDK and run dotnet build in the repository root; then use dotnet run --project src/Uniform.Chat.Terminal -- in place of the program in this guide.