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Introduction

The Linux port of Password Safe is currently stable, although lacking some of the more advanced features of the Windows version.

Supported Distributions

Packages for the versions of Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora that were current at the time of release may be found on the Github (primary) and SourceForge (secondary) sites under https://github.com/pwsafe/pwsafe/releases and https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/Linux/, respectively. If you don't find the package for the distribution of your choice, you can contact the developers via https://pwsafe.org/contact.php or build it yourself according to the instuctions listed in README.LINUX.DEVELOPERS.md. Slackware is independently supported, see below.

Installation on Debian or Ubuntu

Password Safe is available as package (https://packages.debian.org/stable/passwordsafe). To install it just use the following command.

$ sudo apt install passwordsafe

or

  1. Download the .deb file that corresponds to your distribution.
  2. Install it using dpkg: 
    $ sudo dpkg -i passwordsafe-*.deb
    Dpkg will complain if prerequisite packages are missing. To install the missing packages: 
    $ sudo apt -f install

Installation on Fedora

  1. Download the .rpm file that corresponds to your distribution.
  2. Install it using dnf: 
    $ sudo dnf install passwordsafe-*.rpm

Installation on Gentoo

As usual there are USE flags to control the features of the package. On Gentoo, suport for Yubi keys and QR is disabled by default.

$ sudo emerge app-admin/passwordsafe

Slackware

Slackware users can download SlackBuild for Password Safe from https://slackbuilds.org, courtesy of rfmae (search for passwordsafe).

Installation on Arch

The package description file (PKGBUILD) can be dowloaded via

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/passwordsafe.git

After downloading, cd to the passwordsafe directory and run

$ makepkg

to download the code, compile and package it. Finally, run

$ sudo pacman -U passwordsafe-*.zst

to install the package on your machine.

For more details on building and installing packages on Arch, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

Flatpak

Finally, Password Safe may be installed as a flatpak from Flathub:

$ flatpak install flathub org.pwsafe.pwsafe
$ flatpak run org.pwsafe.pwsafe

See https://flathub.org/setup to get started using flatpak.

Reporting Bugs

Please submit bugs via https://sourceforge.net/p/passwordsafe/bugs/. Set the Category field to Linux to help ensure timely response.