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This is a step by step guide shows how to install the Claude Desktop App in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based Linux Distributions.<\/p>\n
The Claude Desktop for Linux is so far a Beta<\/b> app that provides the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as on macOS and Windows.<\/p>\n
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The Claude Desktop app has an official Not only for the modern Intel\/AMD<\/b> computers, it also works on arm64\/aarch64<\/b> devices, such as Raspberry Pi and Snapdragon X laptops.<\/p>\n This is a re-write of the official guide<\/a> that follows the Debian policy<\/a> to use the new 1.<\/b> First, press When terminal opens, run command to install the 2.<\/b> Run command to download the key file:<\/p>\n The After running the 3.<\/b> Next, run command to create a config file for Claude apt repository using the new Here I use the When file opens (in terminal), paste the content below:<\/p>\n Finally, press Ctrl+S to save, and Ctrl+X to exit.<\/p>\n 4.<\/b> Finally, refresh system package cache via command:<\/p>\n In the output, it should include something looks like “Get\/Hit https:\/\/downloads.claude.ai\/claude-desktop ..”.<\/p>\n 5.<\/b> If everything goes well, install the Claude Desktop app via command:<\/p>\n Finally launch the app from your system application launcher and enjoy!<\/p>\n NOTE: The last To uninstall the app, simply launch terminal and run command:<\/p>\n And, you may remove the apt repository by deleting the source and key files.<\/p>\n After that, run This is a step by step guide shows how to install the Claude Desktop App in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based Linux Distributions. The Claude Desktop for Linux is so far a Beta app that provides the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as on macOS and Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2472,2473],"class_list":["post-51818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ai","tag-claude-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/claude-app.webp\")
<\/a><\/p>\nSupported Hardware & OSes:<\/h3>\n
apt<\/code> repository, allowing to install and keep the app package up-to-date in the following Linux Distributions:<\/p>\n\n
Install Claude Desktop App<\/h3>\n
debian.sources<\/code> format, while sources.list<\/code> format is likely to be deprecated in future.<\/p>\nCtrl+Alt+T<\/code> or launch terminal from your system application launcher.<\/p>\ncurl<\/code> tool:<\/p>\nsudo apt install curl<\/pre>\n
sudo curl -fsSLo \/etc\/apt\/keyrings\/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc https:\/\/downloads.claude.ai\/claude-desktop\/key.asc<\/pre>\n
\/etc\/apt\/keyrings<\/code> is the preferred directory in Ubuntu for storing third-party key files. It exists out-of-the-box in recent Ubuntu releases. Just in case, you may run the command below to create the directory first:<\/p>\nsudo mkdir -p \/etc\/apt\/keyrings<\/pre>\n
curl<\/code> command, you may run ls \/etc\/apt\/keyrings<\/code> to make sure the key is properly saved into that directory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\ndebian.sources<\/code> format.<\/p>\nsudo nano \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/claude-desktop.sources<\/pre>\n
nano<\/code> command line text editor that works in most desktop environments, you may replace it with your favorite text editor.<\/p>\nTypes: deb\r\nURIs: https:\/\/downloads.claude.ai\/claude-desktop\/apt\/stable\r\nSuites: stable\r\nComponents: main\r\nArchitectures: amd64 arm64\r\nSigned-By: \/etc\/apt\/keyrings\/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\nsudo apt update<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\nsudo apt install claude-desktop<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\napt install<\/code> command will try to create the old .list<\/code> apt source during installation. To avoid conflict, it’s better to remove it afterward via commands below:<\/b><\/p>\nsudo rm \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/claude-desktop.list<\/pre>\n
sudo rm \/usr\/share\/keyrings\/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\nUninstall:<\/h3>\n
sudo apt remove claude-desktop<\/pre>\n
sudo rm \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/claude-desktop* \/etc\/apt\/keyrings\/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc<\/pre>\n
sudo apt update<\/code> to refresh cache.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"