Bennett/Bennett Download and Install guide

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Supported Platforms

Currently supported platforms:

  • Linux (Ubuntu 24) AMD 64
  • Linux (Ubuntu 24) ARM 64

Experimental supported:

  • MacOS

Download Links

Downloads for Bennett packages
Platform Architecture Install Docs Download Link
Ubuntu 24.04 AMD64 Bennett Ubuntu Install click for Ubuntu 22.04 download
Ubuntu 24.04 ARM64 Bennett Ubuntu Install click for Ubuntu 22.04 download
MacOS ARM64 Bennett - MacOS install guide To be released shortly

Installing Bennett on Ubuntu 22.04

  1. Download appropriate Bennett package from the above section
  2. Open a terminal window
  3. Change to the directory containing the downloaded file, for example

    cd ~/Downloads

  4. run the following command

    sudo apt install ./THE_FILE_YOU_JUST_DOWNLOADED.deb

  5. a specific example at this time is

    sudo apt install ./Bennett_0.9.0.1_amd64.deb

  6. When prompted to install packages, enter 'y'

Uninstalling Bennett

To uninstall Bennett if installed with either of the above two packages, run the following command:

dpkg -r bennett

Running Bennett

Once Bennett is installed on your system, the scripts to start the GUI are available at /opt/bennett/bin/ This path should be added to your system path, either by running the following commands each time you wish to run Bennett.

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/bennett/bin/

start_bennett_151

or appending the below to your ~/.bashrc file.

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/bennett/bin/