Safe Exam Browser for Linux

A native Linux implementation of Safe Exam Browser, built with Qt 6 and Qt WebEngine.

Overview

This project provides a native Linux client focused on:

• Reliable startup and kiosk-like exam runtime behavior
• Linux desktop integration (file associations and protocol handling)
• Packaging and distribution for common Linux ecosystems

It supports:

• Opening .seb configuration files
• Handling seb:// and sebs:// links
• Running as an installed Linux desktop application

Important

This repository is an independent Linux implementation and is not an official Safe Exam Browser release.

Prerequisites

Make sure your environment has the dependencies required for a Qt 6 + Qt WebEngine desktop build.

Build

./scripts/build.sh

Compiled binary output:

build/bin/safe-exam-browser

Run

Start with default behavior:

./build/bin/safe-exam-browser

Open a local exam file:

./build/bin/safe-exam-browser /path/to/exam.seb

Open a remote exam link:

./build/bin/safe-exam-browser sebs://demo.safeexambrowser.org/exams/DemoExamGeneral.seb

Run with a JSON config file:

./build/bin/safe-exam-browser --config ./examples/minimal-config.json

Create Release Artifacts

./scripts/build-release.sh 0.1.0

Release files are written to dist/.

Prebuilt binaries are available from the GitHub Releases page.

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install ./dist/safe-exam-browser_0.1.0_amd64.deb

Arch Linux

cd packaging/arch
makepkg -si

Contributing

Please review these files before opening a PR:

• CONTRIBUTING.md
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• SECURITY.md

Quick copy/open helper:

cat CONTRIBUTING.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md SECURITY.md

License

Licensed under the terms in LICENSE.