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A few days ago I was busting in tropic
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for not having a Linux edition of the
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cloud desktop application. They were
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quick to save for Windows and Mac OS,
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but Linux users left out in cold as
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And like always the communities stepped
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up and built one for themselves. This
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one right here, the cloud desktop Debian
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application. Another reason for my
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discontent was this. In an interview
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when Anthropic's CEO was asked how they
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are managing to ship new models and
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features so fast, his answer was this.
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>> They are we're now using Claude to help,
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you know, develop [music] our models
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and, you know, make them more efficient
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and quickly develop products.
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>> So naturally I was thinking if that's
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the secret sauce they have, why not use
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it to build Claude code desktop app for
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Linux too. To my surprise they recently
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released the beta for Linux. [music] So
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let's not waste any more time talking
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about it and install it in our system
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and see what we actually get. Now, there
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is some sort of requirements that we
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have to keep in mind. It requires Ubuntu
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22 or later editions [music] and Debian
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12 or later edition. So if you have any
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of these distributions, [music] you are
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good to go. Any distributions that is
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based on these two distributions like
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Linux Mint, Kali Linux, [music]
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elementary OS or all the other Debian
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based distributions. For Red Hat based
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systems, it will be released later. So
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distros like Fedora, Rocky Linux, CentOS
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and Red Hat of course, for these
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distributions the RPM based will be
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released later on. You guys have to wait
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for it. And the current package is
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supported for both AMD based and ARM
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based systems and you need to [music]
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have a 64-bit, that's a requirement.
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Another thing is the virtualization. So
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by default it is enabled in most of the
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systems and in rare case it may not be
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enabled in your system, so you have to
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go into the BIOS and enable the
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virtualization and then you can [music]
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use the software. So with these all
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requirements in mind, let's quickly
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install the software and see. So, you
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have to head on to this documentation
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page and here you have all the commands
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that you have to run. I'll provide the
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link in the description as well as all
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these commands, so you can quickly copy
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and paste [music] and execute them. So,
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first we have to import the Entropic
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signing key so that we can authenticate
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the package that we are installing and
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this requires curl utility. So, if you
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get the message like curl not found,
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then you have to install [music] it
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command. Then again run this command so
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that it can import the signing key.
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After importing signing key, you have to
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add the repository into the system for
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the cloud code application so that you
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can download the cloud code and any
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future updates. So, after adding the
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repository, you have to update the
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package index. So, run this command sudo
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apt update and it will update it.
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Finally, we can install cloud desktop
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application. So, run this command and
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You see this is also installing bird io
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fst. So, this package is necessary
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because it is used by Cowerb and
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probably by cloud code also, the cloud
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code feature in the cloud code desktop
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application for sandboxing particular
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directories to enforce permissions
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[music] and isolation. We will come to
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this later on as well because we have to
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add the user in the KVM group. [music]
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So, now that we have installed the cloud
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code, let me quickly open it up and
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[music] sign in my account.
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So, here you go folks. This is the
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application and the little cloud mascot
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is playing with football. Here are all
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my chat sessions. This coding section we
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have already seen and this Cowerb tab
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which is hidden right now. To enable it,
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we have to add our current user which is
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Linux S2 in my case to the KVM group.
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So, let me quickly do that. So, open the
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terminal and just type this command.
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We are basically appending our current
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user to the KVM group here.
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If I run the groups, you can see all the
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groups the current user is part of and
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the KVM is not listed here because we
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have just added our current user to the
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>> for the KVM to appear here, we have to
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reboot the system. So, let me quickly
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reboot it and show you again.
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So, I have rebooted my computer. Now, if
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I type the group, you can see my user
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has been added to the KVM group as well.
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Let's open Claude and see if over
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You can see now I can navigate to it as
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With Claude, you also get this design
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feature. You get bunch of these options
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[music] to choose from depending upon
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your need. So, let me design something
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quickly. I'm going to go with this
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animation [music] option here and I'm
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prompting a happy Linux mascot. Let's
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see how it turns out.
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This will take some time because it has
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to do bunch [music] of things. So, let's
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I think it's looking pretty good. The
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Linux mascot having fun. So, there you
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go folks. The Claude code desktop
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application officially running on my
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Linux computer. You can install on yours
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as well. Just follow the guide. My
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gratitude goes to Anthropic [music] for
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finally releasing it and I hope you find
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it helpful. I'll catch you again in the
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next one. Till then, ta-ta and bye-bye.
