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:pear: Pear Desktop













- Native look & feel extension

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 Content

- Features
- Translation
- Download
  - Arch Linux
  - Solus
  - MacOS
  - Windows
    - How to install without a network connection? (in Windows)
- Themes
- Dev
- Build your own plugins
  - Creating a plugin
  - Common use cases
- Build
- Production Preview
- Tests
- License
- FAQ

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 Download

You can check out the latest release to quickly find the
latest version.

 Arch Linux

Install the pear-desktop package from the AUR. For AUR installation instructions, take a look at
this wiki page.

 Solus

bash
sudo eopkg install pear-desktop


 macOS

You can install the app using Homebrew (see the cask definition):

bash
brew install pear-devs/pear/pear-desktop


If you install the app manually and get an error "is damaged and can’t be opened." when launching the app, run the following in the Terminal:

bash
/usr/bin/xattr -cr /Applications/Pear\ Desktop.app


 Windows

You can use the Scoop package manager to install the pear-desktop package from
the extras bucket.

bash
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install extras/pear-desktop


Alternately you can use Winget, Windows 11s
official CLI package manager to install the pear-devs.pear-desktop package.

Note: Microsoft Defender SmartScreen might block the installation since it is from an "unknown publisher". This is also
true for the manual installation when trying to run the executable(.exe) after a manual download here on github (same
file).

bash
winget install pear-devs.pear-desktop


 How to install without a network connection? (in Windows)

- Download the .nsis.7z file for _your device architecture_ in release page.
  - x64 for 64-bit Window