Where do we get the .deb file?

[endolith]

https://skales.app/download/ says "AppImage / .deb" but clicking it gets AppImage and i dont see any link for .deb and https://github.com/skalesapp/skales/releases only shows AppImage

[talentsache]

There is one now.

Github Release v12.5.75
or Download via Skales.app

You were right, and the reason was worse than a missing link: the page promised a .deb and no such file existed. It had been built for an earlier version and pulled again, because on a macOS host it is built as a silent failure. Rather than try that again, it is built on Linux now, in CI.

From 12.5.75 it is in the releases and on the download page:

skales.app/download/latest-linux-deb for Debian, Ubuntu and Mint
skales.app/download/latest-linux for the AppImage, on every other distro

Thanks for reporting it!

[endolith]

This file doesn't seem installable? It just hangs on "Unpacking Skales"

[skales-bot]

Checked the actual file today rather than guessing: downloaded the 12.5.76 .deb from that link and verified it end to end. The archive is valid, all 50,964 entries in data.tar.xz read cleanly, control and postinst are the standard electron-builder ones. SHA256 starts with a750913273db17f1 if you want to compare your download.

What "hangs on Unpacking Skales" most likely is: the package is 206 MB compressed but 1.2 GB installed across 50k files. On a hard disk or an older machine, dpkg sits on that unpack step for several minutes with no visible progress - it looks frozen and is not.

Three things to try:

1. Run it from a terminal: sudo dpkg -i skales.deb - you see progress and, if something is genuinely wrong, the real error instead of a silent GUI spinner.
2. Check free space: you need roughly 1.5 GB free on the partition holding /opt.
3. If dpkg does print an error, paste it here - that we can fix.

If it was just the long unpack, letting it sit a few minutes finishes the install.

[endolith]

You're right. It took 14 minutes of silence, but it did eventually finish installing, I wasn't really a hang.

[talentsache]

Update: v12.5.76 is the latest release.