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Installation

Instructions and releases are currently only available for Linux, but compiling on Windows and macOS should be possible with the right tools.

Packages

Linux

For developement, or if none of the package options are satisfying, see manual installation.
Packages other than the Flatpak are not maintained by the Moment authors, and thus might be outdated.

Flatpak

Moment is also available as a Flatpak.

  1. Download the Moment Flatpak from Flathub. Alternatively, you can issue the following commands in a terminal:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists \
    flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

flatpak install flathub xyz.mx_moment.moment

flatpak run xyz.mx_moment.moment
  1. If your operating system doesn't already have built-in support for Flatpaks, follow these instructions to install Flatpak support on your system.
Configuration migration

Note that automatic migration of data from Mirage is not supported when using Flatpak. If you would like to manually migrate your logins, encryption keys, configuration and themes from Mirage, you can do it like so:

Migration from Mirage's Flatpak

Issue the following commands:

$ mkdir -p ~/.var/app/xyz.mx_moment.moment/{config,data}
$ cd ~/.var/app
$ cp -r io.github.mirukana.mirage/config/mirage/* xyz.mx_moment.moment/config/moment
$ cp -r io.github.mirukana.mirage/data/mirage/* xyz.mx_moment.moment/data/moment
Migration from a distribution package

Issue the following commands:

$ mkdir -p ~/.var/app/xyz.mx_moment.moment/{config,data}
$ cd ~/.var/app

If you are on Debian, replace mirage with mirage-matrix in the following commands:

$ cp -r ~/.config/mirage/* xyz.mx_moment.moment/config/moment
$ cp -r ~/.local/share/mirage/* xyz.mx_moment.moment/data/moment

Alpine Linux / postmarketOS

If you are on the Edge channel of Alpine Linux or postmarketOS, Moment can be installed right from the testing repositry:

apk add moment

If you are unsure about what Edge is and want to read more about it, you can do so on the Alpine Wiki.

Arch Linux

AUR packages for the latest stable release and git main branch are available.

Installing the release version with an AUR helper, e.g. yay:

yay -S moment

Manual Installation

Qt 5.12+, Python 3.6+ (with pip to install packages from the requirements.txt), PyOtherSide 1.5+ and libolm 3+ are required.
The equivalent -dev or -devel packages are needed, if your distro splits development headers into their own packages.

To enable X11-specific features on Linux, libX11 and libXScrnSaver / libXss are needed. The requirements can be disabled by adding CONFIG+=no-x11 to the qmake moment.pro command.

For the Pillow Python package, these dependencies are recommended to support all common image formats:

  • libjpeg-turbo
  • zlib
  • libtiff
  • libwebp
  • openjpeg2

libmediainfo is also required for the pymediainfo package.

Environment Variables

To ensure Qt 5 will be used by default, compile using all CPU cores and optimize the build for your machine:

export QT_SELECT=5
export MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)"
export CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"

Package Manager Dependencies

Alpine Linux 3.9+ / apk

PyOtherSide and libolm must be manually installed.

sudo apk add qt5-qtquickcontrols2-dev qt5-qtsvg-dev qt5-qtimageformats \
             libx11-dev libxscrnsaver-dev alsa-lib-dev \
             python3-dev py3-setuptools \
             build-base git cmake \
             libjpeg-turbo-dev zlib-dev tiff-dev libwebp-dev openjpeg-dev \
             libmediainfo-dev

export PATH="/usr/lib/qt5/bin:$PATH"

Arch Linux / pacman

pacman -S qt5-base qt5-declarative qt5-quickcontrols2 qt5-svg \
         qt5-graphicaleffects qt5-imageformats \
         libx11 libxss alsa-lib \
         python python-pip \
         python-pyotherside \
         libolm \
         base-devel git cmake \
         libjpeg-turbo zlib libtiff libwebp openjpeg2 libmediainfo

Fedora 30+ / dnf

sudo dnf groupinstall 'Development Tools'
sudo dnf install qt5-devel qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtdeclarative-devel \
                 qt5-qtquickcontrols2-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel \
                 qt5-qtgraphicaleffects qt5-qtimageformats \
                 python3-devel python3-pip pyotherside \
                 libX11-devel libXScrnSaver-devel alsa-lib-devel \
                 git cmake \
                 libolm-devel \
                 libjpeg-turbo-devel zlib-devel libtiff-devel libwebp-devel \
                 openjpeg2-devel libmediainfo-devel

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/qmake-qt5 /usr/bin/qmake

Gentoo / emerge

libolm must be manually installed.

You might need to prepend the emerge command with USE=bindist, if emerge says so.

sudo emerge -av qtcore qtdeclarative qtquickcontrols2 \
                qtsvg qtgraphicaleffects qtimageformats \
                libX11 libXScrnSaver alsa-lib \
                dev-python/pip pyotherside \
                dev-vcs/git cmake \
                libjpeg-turbo zlib tiff libwebp openjpeg libmediainfo

Ubuntu 19.04 / apt

libolm must be manually installed.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qt5-default qt5-qmake qt5-image-formats-plugins \
                 qml-module-qtquick2 qml-module-qtquick-window2 \
                 qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qtquick-dialogs \
                 qml-module-qt-labs-platform \
                 qml-module-qtquick-shapes \
                 qtdeclarative5-dev \
                 qtquickcontrols2-5-dev \
                 libx11-dev libxss-dev libasound2-dev \
                 python3-dev python3-pip \
                 qml-module-io-thp-pyotherside \
                 build-essential git cmake \
                 libjpeg-turbo8-dev zlib1g-dev libtiff5-dev libwebp-dev \
                 libopenjp2-7-dev libmediainfo-dev

Ubuntu 19.10+, Debian bullseye / apt

No need to install libolm manually.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qt5-default qt5-qmake qt5-image-formats-plugins \
                 qml-module-qtquick2 qml-module-qtquick-window2 \
                 qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qtquick-dialogs \
                 qml-module-qt-labs-platform \
                 qml-module-qtquick-shapes \
                 qml-module-qt-labs-qmlmodels \
                 qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects \
                 qml-module-qtquick-controls2 \
                 qtdeclarative5-dev \
                 qtquickcontrols2-5-dev \
                 libx11-dev libxss-dev libasound2-dev \
                 python3-dev python3-pip \
                 qml-module-io-thp-pyotherside \
                 build-essential git cmake \
                 libjpeg62-turbo-dev zlib1g-dev libtiff5-dev libwebp-dev \
                 libopenjp2-7-dev libmediainfo-dev \
                 libolm-dev

Pop! OS

No need to install libolm manually.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qt5-qmake qt5-image-formats-plugins qml-module-qtquick2 \
                 qml-module-qtquick-window2 qml-module-qtquick-layouts \
                 qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qml-module-qt-labs-platform \
                 qml-module-qtquick-shapes qml-module-qt-labs-qmlmodels \
                 qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects qml-module-qtquick-controls2 \
                 qtdeclarative5-dev qtquickcontrols2-5-dev libx11-dev \
                 libxss-dev libasound2-dev python3-dev python3-pip \
                 qml-module-io-thp-pyotherside build-essential git \
                 cmake zlib1g-dev libtiff5-dev libwebp-dev libopenjp2-7-dev \
                 libmediainfo-dev libolm-dev meson libdbus-glib-1-dev \
                 libgirepository1.0-dev patchelf
pip3 install --user dbus-python

Void Linux / xbps

sudo xbps-install -Su qt5-devel qt5-declarative-devel \
                      qt5-quickcontrols2-devel \
                      qt5-svg-devel qt5-graphicaleffects qt5-imageformats \
                      libx11-devel libXScrnSaver-devel alsa-lib-devel \
                      python3-devel python3-pip \
                      olm-devel pyotherside \
                      base-devel git cmake \
                      libjpeg-turbo-devel zlib-devel tiff-devel libwebp-devel \
                      libopenjpeg2-devel libmediainfo-devel

Installing PyOtherSide Manually

Skip this section if you already installed it from your distro's package manager.

git clone https://github.com/thp/pyotherside
cd pyotherside
make clean
qmake
make
sudo make install

Installing libolm Manually

Skip this section if you already installed it from your distro's package manager.

git clone https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/
cd olm
cmake . -Bbuild
cmake --build build
sudo make install

Installing or updating Moment

After following the above sections instructions depending on your system; clone the repository, initalize the submodules, install the python dependencies, compile and install:

git clone https://gitlab.com/mx-moment/moment
cd moment

git pull
git submodule update --init submodules/*
pip3 install --user -Ur requirements.txt

qmake moment.pro
make
sudo make install

To compile without the X11-specific dependencies and features on Linux, run qmake moment.pro CONFIG+=no-x11 instead of qmake moment.pro.

If everything went fine, run moment to start.

Common Issues

cffi version mismatch

When installing the python dependencies, if you get a version mismatch error related to cffi, try:

pip3 install --user --upgrade --force-reinstall cffi

Type XYZ unavailable

If the application exits without showing any window and you get a terminal message like this:

file:///.../src/gui/Window.qml:83:5: Type PythonRootBridge unavailable

then a QML component/type failed to import due to either a missing dependency or a programming error.
If the type has Python in its name, ensure PyOtherSide is correctly installed. You should see a similar message:

Got library name:  "/usr/lib/qt5/qml/io/thp/pyotherside/libpyothersideplugin.so"

To ensure the correct permissions are set for the PyOtherSide plugin files:

sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/lib/qt5/qml/io
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/qt5/qml/io/thp/pyotherside/*
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/qt5/qml/io/thp/pyotherside/*.so

Note that the Qt lib path might be /usr/lib/qt/ instead of /usr/lib/qt5/, depending on the distro.

libimagequant.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution from here works.

sudo ln /lib/libimagequant.so.0.4 /lib/libimagequant.so.0