Install tuxedo Todo Manager on Ubuntu 26.04

The tuxedo is a fast, keyboard-driven terminal user interface for managing tasks in the standard todo.txt format. It supports Vim-style key bindings, task filtering, sorting, archiving, and other todo.txt operations. This tutorial explains how to install tuxedo todo manager on Ubuntu 26.04.

Install tuxedo

First, retrieve the current release version and assign it to a variable:

TUXEDO_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/webstonehq/tuxedo/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')

Next, download the corresponding archive and extract the executable into /usr/local/bin:

curl -sSL https://github.com/webstonehq/tuxedo/releases/latest/download/tuxedo-v$TUXEDO_VERSION-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz \
  | sudo tar xz --strip-components=1 -C /usr/local/bin --wildcards '*/tuxedo'

After the installation, confirm that the tuxedo executable is available by checking its version:

tuxedo --version

Testing tuxedo

Tasks can be placed in a text file and then passed to tuxedo for processing. For example, create a todo list:

nano todo.txt

Add several tasks to the file:

(A) Finish Tuxedo testing +work @computer due:2026-09-04
(B) Read Tuxedo documentation +learning @computer due:2026-09-05

Run tuxedo with the todo list as its argument:

tuxedo todo.txt

The terminal interface can then be used to manage the tasks.

Uninstall tuxedo

When tuxedo is no longer needed, its executable can be deleted from the system by using the following command:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/tuxedo

The application cache can also be removed with:

rm -rf ~/.cache/tuxedo