Beyond Compare 5 for LINUX
Release Notes

CONTENTS
1) REQUIREMENTS
2) INSTALLATION
3) REGISTERING

REQUIREMENTS

  Compatible Linux distributions:
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, 10
  - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS, 26.04 LTS
  - Linux Mint 21, 22 Cinnamon Edition
  - Fedora 43, 44
  - Debian 12, 13

INSTALLATION

0) Install libraries and/or repositories if required

The .deb and .rpm packages install required dependencies automatically when a package manager such as apt, dnf, etc. are used.

RHEL 10, Fedora:
	Dependencies are included in a workstation install.
	
RHEL 9:
	Install the EPEL repository to provide Qt 6 dependencies.
	> subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-$(arch)-rpms
	> dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
	> /usr/bin/crb enable

	Install Qt 6 dependencies.
	> dnf install qt6-qtbase-gui

Ubuntu, Debian:
	Install Qt 6 dependencies.
	> sudo apt install libqt6gui6 libqt6printsupport6 qt6-qpa-plugins

1) Extract files.
> tar zxvf BCompare_*.tar.gz

2) Run install.sh
> cd bcompare-*
> ./install.sh

The default location when installing as root is "/usr." If the user does not have root privileges, Beyond Compare will be installed to the user's home directory by default.

The default installation directory can be overridden with the --prefix=[DIR] option. This is also documented with ./install.sh --help.

3) Run Beyond Compare
> $HOME/bin/bcompare  (non-root install)
> /usr/bin/bcompare   (root install)

REGISTERING

- To register for a single user, select Help > Enter Key and paste in your license.

- To register for a single user without running BC5, save your license key in the text file

	"~username/.beyondcompare/BC5Key.txt".

- To register for all users, save your license key in the text file

	"/etc/BC5Key.txt".