Package Details: claude-desktop 1.49585.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/claude-desktop.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: claude-desktop
Description: Official Claude AI desktop app from Anthropic — Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code
Upstream URL: https://claude.com/download
Licenses: LicenseRef-Proprietary
Conflicts: claude, claude-desktop-bin
Submitter: diazkev314
Maintainer: diazkev314
Last Packager: diazkev314
Votes: 19
Popularity: 8.28
First Submitted: 2026-07-05 01:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-09-09 02:39 (UTC)

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Pinned Comments

diazkev314 commented on 2026-07-05 02:49 (UTC)

Notes from the maintainer:

  1. This package now tracks the official Anthropic desktop app for Linux (announced 2026-07). If you watched it in its earlier, unofficial incarnation, everything below is new.

  2. It repackages Anthropic's official .deb verbatim from their apt repository (downloads.claude.ai), with upstream-published checksums. Cowork works out of the box: the package ships symlinks bridging the Debian paths the app expects (virtiofsd, OVMF firmware) to their Arch locations.

  3. First Cowork use downloads a ~1.3 GB VM image, which expands to roughly 12 GB on disk under ~/.config/Claude/vm_bundles/. If the VM fails to start, check that your user can access /dev/kvm (some setups need the 'kvm' group).

  4. If you previously applied a manual Cowork fix, remove your handmade symlinks before installing, or pacman will report file conflicts: /usr/bin/virtiofsd and /usr/share/edk2/OVMF_{CODE,VARS}_4M.fd (an old /etc/modules-load.d/vhost_vsock.conf is harmless but no longer needed — the module auto-loads).

  5. On desktops Chromium doesn't recognize (Hyprland, Sway, ...) sign-in is stored insecurely, and switching between DEs logs you out. Fix: copy the .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications/, add --password-store=kwallet6 (or gnome-libsecret) to its Exec= lines, then run: update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications (skipping that last step breaks the claude:// sign-in redirect). This is upstream Chromium behavior, not a packaging issue.

  6. CachyOS users: your distro repo ships its own (older) claude-desktop without the Cowork fix, and it shadows this package in AUR helpers. Install with: paru -S aur/claude-desktop

  7. paru 2.1.0 may offer to install qemu-system-aarch64/edk2-aarch64 on x86_64 — that's paru bug #1497, not a packaging error; they're inert and safe to decline (build with makepkg) or remove afterwards.

Latest Comments

diazkev314 commented on 2026-08-30 00:14 (UTC)

@leodip There's no v2, on Linux or any other platform. Every Claude Desktop release is versioned 1.x.

leodip commented on 2026-08-29 11:56 (UTC)

Thanks for the package. Is there a v2 already, for Linux?

harre commented on 2026-08-18 20:21 (UTC)

On KDE Plasma I get that the Claude window auto-raises over other windows. It doesn't respect my setting of just getting the window focus without raising it, ie sloppy focus.

river_wunsch commented on 2026-07-29 07:15 (UTC)

@lvc1fer No popup doesn't mean no updates. On Linux, updates are the package manager's job, not each app's, so distro packages normally ship with the self-updater disabled.

The notification just moves to the terminal: the maintainer bumps pkgver, and your AUR helper lists claude-desktop as an available upgrade on the next paru -Syu / yay -Syu, same as any other package.

lvc1fer commented on 2026-07-29 04:59 (UTC)

that sucks. I'm still on Windows version and there have been like a dozen of updates since.

diazkev314 commented on 2026-07-23 03:09 (UTC)

@lvc1fer No, I haven't seen any new update pop-up even when there is a new available.

lvc1fer commented on 2026-07-22 02:55 (UTC)

Will it send "New update" pop-up everytime there's a new build like in Windows version?

diazkev314 commented on 2026-07-05 02:49 (UTC)

Notes from the maintainer:

  1. This package now tracks the official Anthropic desktop app for Linux (announced 2026-07). If you watched it in its earlier, unofficial incarnation, everything below is new.

  2. It repackages Anthropic's official .deb verbatim from their apt repository (downloads.claude.ai), with upstream-published checksums. Cowork works out of the box: the package ships symlinks bridging the Debian paths the app expects (virtiofsd, OVMF firmware) to their Arch locations.

  3. First Cowork use downloads a ~1.3 GB VM image, which expands to roughly 12 GB on disk under ~/.config/Claude/vm_bundles/. If the VM fails to start, check that your user can access /dev/kvm (some setups need the 'kvm' group).

  4. If you previously applied a manual Cowork fix, remove your handmade symlinks before installing, or pacman will report file conflicts: /usr/bin/virtiofsd and /usr/share/edk2/OVMF_{CODE,VARS}_4M.fd (an old /etc/modules-load.d/vhost_vsock.conf is harmless but no longer needed — the module auto-loads).

  5. On desktops Chromium doesn't recognize (Hyprland, Sway, ...) sign-in is stored insecurely, and switching between DEs logs you out. Fix: copy the .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications/, add --password-store=kwallet6 (or gnome-libsecret) to its Exec= lines, then run: update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications (skipping that last step breaks the claude:// sign-in redirect). This is upstream Chromium behavior, not a packaging issue.

  6. CachyOS users: your distro repo ships its own (older) claude-desktop without the Cowork fix, and it shadows this package in AUR helpers. Install with: paru -S aur/claude-desktop

  7. paru 2.1.0 may offer to install qemu-system-aarch64/edk2-aarch64 on x86_64 — that's paru bug #1497, not a packaging error; they're inert and safe to decline (build with makepkg) or remove afterwards.