If you prefer video instead of written instructions, check out the quickstart screencasts.

If you’ve already installed Pluckeye, see how to update.

If you want to uninstall, see how-to-uninstall.

Windows

1. Visit https://ipluck.net/.
2. Click the big “installer” button.
3. If a window pops up, click “Save” or “Save File”.
4. Click on the name of the downloaded file. It will look something like “pluckeye-windows-0.99.60.exe”. If you are using Chrome, it should appear near the bottom of the window.
5. Follow the instructions in the installation wizard, clicking “Next” to proceed through each step.

Mac OS X

In Chrome:

1. Visit https://r.pluckeye.net/try-it.
2. Click the big “Download” button.
3. Click Save File.
4. Click the download arrow, and click on the downloaded file (e.g., pluckeye-macosx-0.99.60.pkg).
5. Follow the installation wizard prompts.
6. Restart your browsers.

Linux

Step 1: Download

In Chrome:

1. Visit https://ipluck.net/.
2. Click the big “installer” button.
3. Save the file, noting where you save it (usually the Downloads folder) and the file name (e.g., pluckeye-linux-0.99.60.tar.gz).

Step 2: Extract and run the installer

Method 1: Extracting with the default unarchiver

1. Navigate to where you saved the file (often your computer’s “Downloads” folder).
2. Right click the Pluckeye file and select “Extract Here”. Once the extraction is complete, you should see a new file named something like pluckeye-linux*.installer. (If you can’t find the file, check your browser’s settings to see which folder is set to contain your downloads. If your browser is set to save files in the Downloads folder, download Pluckeye again, but this time be sure to click “Save File” instead of “Open With”.)
3. Right click in the blank space in the folder where you saved the file and select “Open in Terminal”. This will open a terminal window in the folder.
4. In the terminal window, type: sudo ./pluck.installer and press enter. Type your password and press enter.

Help

“I right-clicked the file, but there was no ‘Extract Here’ option.”

Your windows manager may not have a built-in unarchiver. See the Method 2 below.

Method 2: Using Tar Command

1. Open a terminal.
2. In the terminal:

          cd /tmp
          rm -f ./pluck*.installer
          for tarball in $HOME/Downloads/pluck*.tar.gz; do echo $tarball; done
          tar xf $tarball
          sudo ./pluck*.installer

Here is an example terminal session in which Jon installs pluckeye-0.36.1 on his Ubuntu computer named theodore:

jon@theodore:~$ cd /tmp
jon@theodore:/tmp$ rm -f ./pluck*.installer
jon@theodore:/tmp$ for tarball in $HOME/Downloads/pluck*.tar.gz; do echo $tarball; done
/home/jon/Downloads/pluckeye-linux-0.36.1.tar.gz
jon@theodore:/tmp$ tar xf $tarball
jon@theodore:/tmp$ sudo ./pluck*.installer
[sudo] password for jon:
Congratulations, you've installed! Type 'pluck' for help.
To start using pluckeye, restart currently running browsers. See
 http://www.pluckeye.net/installed.html?pluckeye-linux-0.36.1-x86
for the latest news on this version.