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Linux support for the Claude desktop app is in beta. The Chat, Cowork, and Code tabs are all available.
The desktop app on Linux gives you the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as macOS and Windows: parallel sessions, visual diff review, an integrated terminal and editor, and live app preview. See Use Claude Code Desktop for the full feature reference.

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Requirements

  • Ubuntu 22.04 or later, or Debian 12 or later
  • x86_64 or arm64
Other Debian-based distributions that meet these requirements may work but aren’t officially tested.

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Install

Install from Anthropic’s apt repository so that updates arrive through your system’s regular package updates.
1

Add Anthropic's apt repository

This step downloads the signing key with curl, which fresh Debian and Ubuntu installations may not include. If the download command fails with sudo: curl: command not found, install curl first:
sudo apt install curl
Download Anthropic’s signing key:
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-desktop/key.asc
Register the repository:
echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc] https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-desktop/apt/stable stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/claude-desktop.list
2

Install the package

sudo apt update && sudo apt install claude-desktop
3

Launch and sign in

Launch Claude from your application launcher, or run claude-desktop from a terminal, and sign in with your Anthropic account.The Linux app signs in the same way as on macOS and Windows: with a claude.ai subscription, or through your organization’s SSO. Desktop doesn’t accept a Claude Console API key directly; use the CLI for API-key authentication. For enterprise deployments that route Desktop to Google Cloud’s Agent Platform or an LLM gateway, see the enterprise configuration guide and network configuration.
You can confirm the downloaded signing key belongs to Anthropic:
gpg --show-keys /usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc
The fingerprint should be 31DD DE24 DDFA B679 F42D 7BD2 BAA9 29FF 1A7E CACE.

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Install from a downloaded file

If you can’t use the apt repository, first download the .deb package for your architecture, x64 or arm64, from claude.com/download. Then open the downloaded file with your software installer, or install it with apt from the directory that contains the downloaded file: 
sudo apt install ./claude-desktop_*.deb
If apt reports E: Unsupported file ./claude-desktop_*.deb given on commandline, the pattern didn’t match a .deb file in the current directory. Confirm the download completed, then run the command again from the directory that contains the file. A .deb installed this way doesn’t receive updates. To get updates through apt, add the repository as shown above, or uncomment the deb line in the placeholder entry the package writes to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/claude-desktop.list.

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Update

The desktop app doesn’t update itself on Linux. Updates arrive with your system’s regular package updates: 
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Your distribution’s graphical software updater will also pick up new versions.

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Uninstall

sudo apt remove claude-desktop
This removes the signing key along with the app, so if you added the repository entry during install, remove it too: 
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/claude-desktop.list

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What’s not in the Linux beta yet

  • Computer Use: app and screen control isn’t available on Linux.
  • Dictation: voice input isn’t available in the Linux desktop app. Use voice dictation in the CLI instead.
  • Quick Entry global hotkey: works on X11. On native Wayland it requires your desktop environment’s GlobalShortcuts portal.
  • Fedora and RHEL: only Debian-based distributions are supported today. Support for additional distributions is coming in the future.
For anything not yet available in the desktop app, the CLI runs the same Claude Code engine and supports a wider range of Linux distributions; see the system requirements.