acue-studio
Prompt files in, text, pictures, narration and clips back, from the model servers you point it at. A per-user service on 127.0.0.1:5193, started when you want it.
Recommends: amber-fonts
The apt archive
Signed Debian packages for Linux Mint 22+ from apt.amberlinux.org. This page is generated from the archive's own metadata, so the versions and dependencies are what apt sees.
Install the archive
bash
sudo curl -fsSL https://apt.amberlinux.org/amberlinux-archive-keyring.gpg \
-o /usr/share/keyrings/amberlinux-archive-keyring.gpg
echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/amberlinux-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.amberlinux.org amber main' \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amberlinux.list
sudo apt updateThen sudo apt install amber-desktop installs the suite, or any single package below is one sudo apt install <name> away.
amber-desktop holds no files of its own. It is a metapackage: a name that depends on the applications of the suite, so they install and stay together under one name. Removing it leaves the applications in place. You do not need to install the shared pieces yourself: the applications depend on amber-fonts, amber-gtk4 and amber-vte themselves, and apt pulls them in. The Odin compiler and its language server are recommended rather than required, so --no-install-recommends leaves both out.
The amber-models-* packages are the speech weights, one package per direction, so a machine can take the voice without the ear. The language model is not a package: the broker downloads the one you pick, and its page lists them.
Packages
amber-desktop
The Amber Linux suite under one name: every application in it that is in the archive, with the Odin compiler and its language server recommended. It holds no files, so removing it leaves the applications installed.
Pulls in: ambrosia, copal, amberlin, amberlin-broker, amberlin-tools, amberlin-calendar, amberlin-inspector, amberlin-settings, elektron, kat800, pinax, acue-studio, amber-fonts, amber-theme
Recommends: amber-odin, amber-ols
amber-fonts
Source Code Pro, Source Sans 3, Source Serif 4 and the Nerd Font cuts kat800 uses. Pulled in automatically.
amber-glycin
glycin 2.2, GNOME's image loader, which decodes each picture in a sandboxed process. Kept off the system's library path, like amber-gtk4.
Pulls in: amber-gtk4
amber-gtk4
GTK 4.16, which Mint 22 does not ship, kept off the system's library path so nothing but the Amber applications sees it. Pulled in automatically.
amber-models
Both speech models under one name. The language model is not a package: the broker downloads the one you pick in Amberlin Settings.
Pulls in: amber-models-tts, amber-models-stt
amber-models-stt
The ear: Moonshine tiny, English, about 104 MB to download, so holding the hotkey and talking works.
amber-models-tts
The voice: Kokoro, 64 voices (all 54 of v1.0 and ten older ones), about 325 MB to download. With it Amberlin speaks; without it, she still answers in writing.
amber-odin
The upstream Odin compiler, repackaged monthly, as /usr/bin/odin. It replaces Ubuntu's unrelated odin package, so the two cannot be installed together.
amber-ols
The ols language server, built against the compiler in amber-odin.
Pulls in: amber-odin
amber-theme
Five desktop profiles around the amber monitors of the 1980s, for GTK 3, GTK 4, libadwaita, Cinnamon and the window borders, with folder icons and ten wallpapers.
amber-vte
VTE 0.84, which Mint 22 does not ship, kept off the system's library path so nothing but kat800 sees it. Pulled in automatically.
Pulls in: amber-gtk4
amberlin
The assistant: hold Ctrl+Super+Space, ask out loud, and the answer is spoken and drawn as notes. Brings the broker, the tools, the calendar, the settings and Ambrosia with it.
Pulls in: ambrosia, amber-fonts, amberlin-settings, amberlin-broker, amberlin-tools, amberlin-calendar
Recommends: kat800
amberlin-broker
The service that holds the models, once, for every application that wants an assistant: speech in and out on this machine, the language model here or on a server you choose.
Pulls in: ambrosia
Recommends: amber-models
amberlin-calendar
Google Calendar on the session bus, through the account GNOME Online Accounts already holds.
amberlin-inspector
For developers: a proxy that records exactly what a model was given and what it returned. Not started at login.
Recommends: amber-fonts
amberlin-runtime
ONNX Runtime and onnxruntime-genai for the broker, in a private folder, for the CPU. Install this one or the CUDA one, not both.
Alternative to: amberlin-runtime-cuda. Install one, not both.
amberlin-runtime-cuda
The same runtime for NVIDIA cards, Blackwell included. CUDA 13 and cuDNN come from NVIDIA's own apt repository.
Alternative to: amberlin-runtime. Install one, not both.
amberlin-runtime-dev
Only the linker symlink, for compiling something against the runtime. Running Amberlin does not need it.
amberlin-settings
One window for the assistant: a Doctor that checks every part, model downloads and settings, the voice, the keys and the tools.
Pulls in: amber-gtk4, amberlin-broker
Recommends: amberlin
amberlin-tools
The tool server: real facts for the language model, from the time and the disks to your notes, inside a bubblewrap sandbox on 127.0.0.1:5190.
ambrosia
The store under the suite: your clipboard, terminal history, notes, bookmarks, recent files, apps and Amberlin conversations, searchable in a panel and served to every program over the session bus.
Pulls in: amber-gtk4
Recommends: copal
copal
The overlay: one keypress lays your newest notes, bookmarks and clips across the screen. Needs a compositor.
Pulls in: amber-fonts
Recommends: ambrosia
elektron
Amberlin's chat at a terminal prompt, with a persona of its own and panes for tools, tokens and pictures. It talks to the broker.
Recommends: amberlin-broker
kat800
The terminal: tabs and docks, remote tmux sessions as native tabs, containers and sandboxes as panes. Its VTE 0.84 comes from amber-vte.
Pulls in: amber-gtk4, amber-vte, amber-fonts
Recommends: ambrosia
pinax
The image viewer: one folder as a mosaic with the newest picture large, a comic reader, and a browser that saves a page's pictures as a comic book.
Pulls in: amber-gtk4, amber-fonts