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title: Install Datashare on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Datashare for Linux - Datashare is a self-hosted
  search engine for documents.
url: https://snapcraft.io/datashare
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# Datashare

[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/icij "View all snaps from International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)")

* [International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/icij "View all snaps from International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)")
* [Utilities](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=utilities)

latest/stable 21.23.0

Install latest/stable of Datashare

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install datashare
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* datashare

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### License

* AGPL-1.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 13 October 2026 - latest/stable
* 17 October 2026 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [datashare.icij.org](https://datashare.icij.org "https://datashare.icij.org")

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### Contact

* [datashare@icij.org](mailto:datashare@icij.org "mailto:datashare@icij.org")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/datashare#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/datashare#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/datashare#tab-security)

#### Datashare is a self-hosted search engine for documents.

Datashare is a self-hosted search engine for documents, using Apache Tika and Apache Tesseract to read thousands of file formats. This tool is developed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), famously known for its groundbreaking investigations into the offshore world (Pandora Papers, Panama Papers, etc).

It also provides:

* Many search filters (file types, creation date, languages, tags, etc)
* Search in batch (with a CSV)
* Search results download
* Tagging and recommendation
* Named Entities recognition with CoreNLP
* Optical characters recognition with Apache Tesseract

After the installation, open a terminal and use the following command to start Datashare:

```
datashare
```

Datashare should now be available on <http://localhost:8080> 🚀

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## Install Datashare on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/ubuntu)