Knowte

Knowte is a note taking application that allows you to quickly and easily organize and find your notes. This version is written using Electron, Angular and Typescript. The original Knowte (for Windows), which is written in WPF and C#, remains available here.

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Build prerequisites

• wine: required to build Windows package
• rpm: required to build rpm package
• libarchive-tools: contains bsdtar, which is required to build pacman package.

To install the prerequisites on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install wine rpm libarchive-tools

To install the prerequisites on Arch Linux and Manjaro:

sudo pacman -S wine rpm-tools

Build instructions

$ git clone https://github.com/digimezzo/knowte.git
$ cd knowte
$ npm install            # Download dependencies
$ npm start              # Start Knowte
$ npm run electron:windows   # Build for Windows
$ npm run electron:linux     # Build for Linux
$ npm run electron:mac       # Build for Mac

Pacman installation notes

The pacman package can be installed using this command (replace x.y.z with the correct version number):

$ sudo pacman -U Knowte-x.y.z.pacman

If you're getting an error concerning a missing package libappindicator-sharp, use this command to perform the installation instead (replace x.y.z with the correct version number):

$ sudo pacman -U Knowte-x.y.z.pacman --assume-installed libappindicator-sharp