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According to this page, it should be available via snap, flatpak, appimage, rust's cargo manager, PPA, AUR (for Arch users), precompiled binaries on GitHub, or building from source. Czkawka: Neat rust-based GUI but might have an issue if you want report only without actually deleting the duplicates (see note and linked issue below - I did not verify this issue myself, just passing along the warning).So if flatpaks aren't an option, building from source may be the only other route. But it does not appear to be in any distro's central repos (per repology) nor does it appear to offer snaps or precompiled binaries. One interesting thing from their GitHub readme is that is supports 'searching and removing duplicate files and similar images'. DetWinner: I don't really know anything about this one.It does not appear to have any precompiled binary releases on GitHub but can be built from source.

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I'm not on an Ubuntu pc at the moment but according to repology it should be in the central repos for most distros including Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Manjaro, Fedora and many others. I had found this documentation link prior to finding the linked comparison table. I've seen a lot of good mentions online but have not tried it yet myself.

Rmlint-GUI: Some pages I saw mentioned that this was formerly called 'Shredder'.

If you are on a non-Ubuntu/Debian-based distro, there is a tar file or you can build from source.

DupeGuru: Same thing suggested in the other answer, this is probably what I would recommend for most users as well (especially for those on Ubuntu as it has an official PPA for Ubuntu Focal/Bionic/Xenial at time of writing or deb files on their GitHub releases page).

I am not going to rip-off the table, but I understand that people like answers to contain more than just a link, so I will also list out the apps from the list along with some of my own notes: The link contains a table which attempts to do a feature comparison. I have opted to try to keep my notes fairly distro-agnostic as well. they are Linux native apps and have GUIs, from the descriptions they should all work as duplicate detectors as well). The listed apps do all meet the requirements mentioned in the OP to the best of my knowledge (e.g. they should work with Ubuntu as well as any other distro) but I have not tested them. Note that these should all be disto-agnostic (e.g. Since you can search for file contents and other similarities, and make use of fuzzy logic, there is little chance that duplicates slip by the program.I found a list of some GUI duplicate finders while doing searches and thought I would add to this since this page had pretty decent SEO rankings in my searches. The available options are excellent even if you don't use custom commands. One thing that I'd like to see is a complete edition featuring the capabilities of all three editions that are currently available.

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The dupeGuru series of duplicate file finders is excellent and there is little to criticize.

#SETTING REFERENCE FOLDER IN DUPEGURU CODE#

The source code is available for download on top of that as well. One interesting feature that it supports is that it can find duplicates among pictures using different file formats (it supports jpg, png, tiff, gif and bmp) or file dimensions.Īll three programs support regular expressions, fuzzy logic and advanced commands that you can make use of. The Picture Edition supports additional options as well. You may select to include artist, album, track, title, genre and year tags in the scan, scan audio contents, or use fields in the filename instead. The Music Edition works in similar fashion but offers more scan options. If you want, you can even add multiple root folders which may be useful if you want to compete two or multiple folders with each other. This can be the root of a hard drive or a folder of a drive. You are asked to pick a root folder for the scan on start. The programs work in a similar fashion though. There is dupeGuru, a general purpose duplicate file finder, and two special editions called dupeGuru Music Edition and dupeGuru Picture Edition optimized for finding duplicate media files.Ĭore differences between the general edition of dupeGuru and the media editions are that they support media features such as metadata and provide additional information based on those. What sets it apart from other duplicate file finders is that there is not only one but three versions of the program available for download.

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The free program dupeGuru is a cross-platform application for Windows, Mac and Linux systems to find and manage duplicate files on computer systems running a supported operating systems.

Setting reference folder in dupeguru