Packages

Every v* tag builds packages for x86_64 and aarch64 and attaches them to a GitHub Release. To actually install one, see Install a package.

What is published

File Format Built for

wusel-<version>-1.fc44.<arch>.rpm

RPM

Fedora 44. The fc44 is not decoration — the package is linked against that release’s libraries.

wusel_<version>_<arch>_debian13.deb

Debian package

Debian 13 (trixie), and Ubuntu releases close enough to it. A .deb filename carries no distribution of its own, which is why the target is spelled into it. On an older Ubuntu — 24.04 LTS among them — expect it not to run.

—

Arch PKGBUILD

Arch Linux. Not published as a file and not on the AUR yet; the recipe is in the repository under packaging/aur/ and is built locally.

These are unsigned community packages, and there is no repository behind them yet — neither dnf nor apt will update them for you. If your distribution or release is not listed, build from source: Install from source.

Dependencies

Only one dependency is stated outright:

fuse3

for the setuid fusermount3 helper that an unprivileged mount needs.

The shared libraries the binary and the Nautilus extension link against are resolved automatically as soname dependencies, so they are not listed by name.

The GNOME pieces — nautilus and gnome-shell — are suggested, not required and not recommended. Neither dnf nor apt installs a suggestion by default, so a server or a KDE machine gets the mount and about five packages, not a desktop stack. What such a machine loses is the sidebar entry, the emblems and the Shell search; the mount itself is unaffected. The search provider in particular links no GNOME library at all — it is the wusel binary answering D-Bus, which the Shell activates on demand.

Before 0.2.2 these were Recommends, which both package managers do install by default.

What a package installs

Path What it is

/usr/bin/wusel

The binary — daemon and CLI in one.

/usr/lib/systemd/user/wusel@.service

The systemd user service template. One instance per account: wusel@default, wusel@work.

/usr/lib*/nautilus/extensions-4/libwusel-nautilus.so

The native Nautilus extension: per-file emblems and the Make Available Offline / Free Up Space menu. Tied to the Nautilus major version, so it is built against the target distribution’s own Nautilus.

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/emblems/wusel-emblem-*.svg

The emblem icons the extension draws. See File states.

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/at.itbh.Wusel.svg

The application icon, used by the sidebar entry and the search results.

/usr/share/applications/at.itbh.Wusel.desktop

The launcher entry the search provider resolves its identity from.

/usr/share/dbus-1/services/at.itbh.Wusel.SearchProvider.service

D-Bus activation for the search provider — this is what lets GNOME Shell start it on demand, with nothing running in the background.

/usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/wusel-search-provider.desktop

The search provider’s registration with GNOME Shell.

/usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.CloudProviders.wusel.default.desktop

The Files sidebar registration for the default account. Named accounts register their own with wusel desktop install-provider.

Nothing is installed into a home directory. Everything Wusel writes per user is created at run time; see Files and directories.

Building them yourself

The recipes live in the repository under packaging/rpm/, packaging/deb/ and packaging/aur/, each with its own README.md. See Build a package.