Installation

Nothing Browser ships prebuilt binaries for Linux. macOS and Windows are coming in v0.2.0.

Linux — One-Line Installer

The fastest way. Downloads the latest release and installs it system-wide.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BunElysiaReact/nothing-browser/main/install.sh | sudo bash

Then run:

nothing-browser

Linux — .deb Package (Debian / Ubuntu)

# Install dependencies first
sudo apt-get install -f

# Install the .deb
sudo apt install ./nothing-browser_*_amd64.deb

Auto-update note

If you install via .deb to /usr/bin, the in-app auto-updater cannot replace the binary without elevated permissions. Use the tar.gz release if you want fully seamless auto-updates.

Linux — tar.gz (No install, portable)

tar -xzf nothing-browser-*-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd nothing-browser-*-linux-x86_64
./nothing-browser

This version supports in-app auto-update with no sudo required.

Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S nothing-browser

macOS

Download the .dmg from Releases → drag to Applications. No install needed.

INFO

macOS support is in active development. Full release in v0.2.0.

Windows

Download the .zip from Releases → extract → run nothing-browser.exe.

INFO

Windows support is in active development. Full release in v0.2.0.

Dependencies

Nothing Browser uses Qt6 WebEngine. The .deb and installer handle this automatically. For the tar.gz, Qt6 must be installed:

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install libqt6webenginewidgets6 libqt6webenginecore6

# Arch
sudo pacman -S qt6-webengine

# Fedora
sudo dnf install qt6-qtwebengine

YouTube Tab — Java Requirement

The YOUTUBE tab uses the NewPipe Extractor bridge, which requires Java 17 or later:

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre

# Check version
java -version