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Kopia supports both command line (CLI) and graphical (GUI) user interfaces.

### Command Line Tool

The easiest way to get started with the Kopia CLI tool is to download pre-compiled `kopia` binary. Alternatively, you can compile it yourself from source.

### Kopia UI

You can download installer packages of KopiaUI for Windows, macOS, and Linux from the [Releases](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/latest) page on GitHub.

### Download

Kopia is released as a single, stand-alone binary, available for many operating systems:
Kopia is released as a single binary, available for many operating systems:

* Windows 7 or later, 64-bit
* macOS 10.11 or later, 64-bit
* Linux - amd64, armv7 or arm64
* Linux - amd64, armhf or arm64

To download latest binary for your platform, go to the [Releases](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/latest) page on GitHub.

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$ rpm -Uhv kopia*.rpm
```

### Linux installation using DEB (Debian, Ubuntu)
### Linux installation using APT (Debian, Ubuntu)

Install GPG signing key:

```shell
curl -s https://kopia.io/signing-key | sudo apt-key add -
```

Install APT source:

```shell
echo "deb http://packages.kopia.io/apt/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kopia.list
sudo apt update
```

>By default the **stable** channel provides official stable releases. If you prefer you can also select **testing** channel (which also provides release candidates and is generally stable) or **unstable** which includes all latest changes, but may not be stable.
You can download a pre-built DEB package suitable for Debian and Ubuntu Linux from the [Releases](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/latest) page on GitHub and install it using:
Finally install Kopia or KopiaUI:

```shell
$ deb -i kopia*.deb
sudo apt install kopia
sudo apt install kopia-ui
```

### Compilation From Source

If you have [Go 1.13](https://golang.org/) or newer, you may download and build Kopia yourself. No special setup is necessary, other than the Go compiler. You can simply run:
If you have [Go 1.14](https://golang.org/) or newer, you may download and build Kopia yourself. No special setup is necessary, other than the Go compiler. You can simply run:

```shell
$ go get github.com/kopia/kopia
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* switched back to using v-prefixed tag names.
* tests: added smoke test that exercises all combinations of encryption and hashing

See full change log on [GitHub](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/tag/v0.6.0).
See full change log on [GitHub](https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/tag/v0.6.1).

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