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Claude Desktop Arch — Development skill for Claude Code

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Builds an Arch Linux package for Claude Desktop by extracting and modifying the official Windows release.

How to install Claude Desktop Arch

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open aaddrick/claude-desktop-arch and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Desktop Arch does

Builds an Arch Linux package for Claude Desktop by extracting and modifying the official Windows release. I

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README

**Debian/Ubuntu Linux users:** For the DPKG/AppImage build script and Debian-specific instructions: [https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian](https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian)

**This repo isn't maintained actively. Please checkout the links below for alternatives**

https://github.com/jkoelker/claude-desktop-native

***THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL PKGBUILD FOR ARCH LINUX BASED SYSTEMS!***

If you run into an issue with this build script, make an issue here. Don't bug Anthropic about it - they already have enough on their plates.

Claude Desktop for Linux (Arch PKGBUILD)

This project provides an Arch Linux `PKGBUILD` to install the Claude Desktop application. It was inspired by [k3d3's claude-desktop-linux-flake](https://github.com/k3d3/claude-desktop-linux-flake) and their [Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1hgsmpq/i_successfully_ran_claude_desktop_natively_on/) about running Claude Desktop natively on Linux.

Supports MCP! Location of the MCP-configuration file is: `~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/93080028-6f71-48bd-8e59-5149d148cd45)

Supports the Ctrl+Alt+Space popup! ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1deb4604-4c06-4e4b-b63f-7f6ef9ef28c1)

Supports the Tray menu! (Screenshot of running on KDE) ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ba209824-8afb-437c-a944-b53fd9ecd559)

Building & Installation (Arch Linux)

For Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions, you can build and install using the provided `PKGBUILD`:

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-arch.git
cd claude-desktop-arch

# Update checksums (needed once, or after PKGBUILD/install script changes)
updpkgsums

# Build and install the package
# This command automatically handles dependencies, builds, and installs
# Use makepkg -sci to automatically clean up build files afterwards
makepkg -si

The `PKGBUILD` will automa