Install guide

Installing Bookmark Manager

Pick the download for your system, run the installer, open it in your browser.

Which download?

System	Download
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)	`bookmark-manager-version-win-x64.zip`
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Rocky, Alma, Arch, openSUSE… (Intel/AMD)	`bookmark-manager-version-linux-x64.tar.gz`
Alpine (Intel/AMD)	`bookmark-manager-version-linux-musl-x64.tar.gz`
64-bit ARM Linux (for example Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit)	`bookmark-manager-version-linux-arm64.tar.gz`

Each download has everything it needs; you don't install .NET or anything else first. The installer tells you if you picked the wrong one.

Windows

Unzip the download.
Double-click install.cmd. (Or in PowerShell: powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1.) No admin rights are needed.
When it says it's running, open http://localhost:5280/ — it's also in the Start menu as Bookmark Manager.

It installs for your Windows account in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\BookmarkManager, starts in the background every time you sign in (no window), and keeps your bookmarks in %LOCALAPPDATA%\BookmarkManager. To use another port, run install.ps1 -Port 8080.

Linux, just for you

tar xzf bookmark-manager-version-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd bookmark-manager-version-linux-x64
./install.sh

Run it as yourself, not with sudo. It installs to ~/.local/lib/bookmark-manager, starts with your desktop session (a systemd user service, or desktop autostart where there's no systemd), and adds Bookmark Manager to your app menu. Open http://localhost:5280/. Your bookmarks are in ~/.local/share/bookmark-manager.

Local installs listen on this computer only and have no sign-in. Nobody else on your network can reach them.

Team server (Linux server, VM or LXC)

One install for the whole team. Any Linux distribution with systemd or OpenRC works; one processor, 1 GB of memory and a few GB of disk are plenty. A standard Debian 13 Proxmox container works out of the box (unprivileged is fine).

tar xzf bookmark-manager-version-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd bookmark-manager-version-linux-x64
sudo ./install.sh --server

The installer creates a bookmark-manager service account, installs to /opt/bookmark-manager and starts a service that comes back after reboots. On Alpine it also installs the few libraries it needs.
Open http://server-address:5280/. The first visit asks you to create the first admin account.
Add your team under Manage users, and enter the license key there.

What	Where
Settings (port and more)	`/etc/bookmark-manager/bookmark-manager.env` — restart the service after a change
Data and nightly backups	`/var/lib/bookmark-manager`
Log	`journalctl -u bookmark-manager` (systemd) or `/var/log/bookmark-manager.log` (OpenRC)
Restart	`systemctl restart bookmark-manager` or `rc-service bookmark-manager restart`

Use --port 8080 to pick another port, and --data-dir /path to keep the data somewhere else.

HTTPS

The app itself speaks plain HTTP, which is fine on your own network. To reach it from anywhere else, put it behind a reverse proxy that handles HTTPS — Caddy, nginx, Traefik or your firewall's proxy — and set BookmarkManager__TrustForwardedHeaders=true in the settings file so sign-ins and links use the right address.

Updating

Download the new version and run the installer again the same way (install.cmd, ./install.sh or sudo ./install.sh --server). It replaces the app and keeps your bookmarks, accounts, settings and license. Any changes to the data are applied when it starts.

Uninstalling

Windows: Settings → Apps → Bookmark Manager → Uninstall.
Linux: ./install.sh --uninstall, or sudo ./install.sh --server --uninstall for a server.

Your data is kept so you can reinstall later; delete the data folder yourself if you don't need it. Before removing it for good, use Settings → Deactivate here (or Manage users on a server) to free the install on your license key.