Aevum now runs on Linux — tested on real hardware (Kali Linux / Debian-based). Windows users: nothing new here, stay on v1.0.0 (Aevum-Setup.exe / Aevum.exe), those builds are unchanged.
Run it
AppImage (recommended):
chmod +x Aevum-x86_64.AppImage
./Aevum-x86_64.AppImage
If you hit a FUSE error (some distros ship without libfuse2):
./Aevum-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run
Portable tarball (no FUSE needed):
tar -xzf Aevum-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
./Aevum/Aevum
Self-contained — yt-dlp and FFmpeg are bundled.
How it behaves on Linux
- No system tray: launching Aevum opens its page in your default browser, and closing the tab shuts the app down (an active download always finishes first).
- Add to app menu (Settings → gear icon, or
--install) installs Aevum as a regular menu app. This copies the AppImage into~/.local/share/aevum/, so you can safely delete the downloaded AppImage afterwards — the menu entry keeps working. Untick it (or--uninstall) to remove the copy, menu entry and icon completely. - Language and theme choices persist across launches.
Fixes since the beta
- Cleaned
LD_LIBRARY_PATHfor child processes so bundled yt-dlp/FFmpeg run correctly on every distro. - App lifetime verified on real hardware: the server really stops after the tab closes (grace period for reconnects, then clean exit).
- Stop button: cancelling a download used to kill the whole app, not just the download — downloads now run in their own process group, so Stop only stops the download. (Assets refreshed 2026-07-05 with this fix.)
Verify your download (SHA-256)
ea1cfd80705a664fe338e5bebffb2397f132f4817f7d7100c772f478add5dfc9 Aevum-x86_64.AppImage
6ba28815c631fdb64b0bbcfb80d5980be5f644b2d19fabbdb122fc5f964ff4c6 Aevum-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
VirusTotal: Aevum-x86_64.AppImage · Aevum-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
License
MIT (own code). Bundles yt-dlp (Unlicense) and FFmpeg (GPL) — see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.