claude-desktop-bin/README


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Claude Desktop is Anthropic's official Electron desktop application for
Claude.ai. It bundles its own Chromium runtime, registers the claude://
URL scheme handler, and provides desktop actions for starting a new
chat or a new Claude Code session.

This is a binary repack of Anthropic's official Debian package pulled
from the Anthropic apt repository
(https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-desktop). No build from source is
performed. The package is x86_64 only and installs to roughly 480 MB.

The Debian package's apt-repository registration and AppArmor userns
profile are Debian/Ubuntu specific and are not reproduced here.
Chromium's SUID sandbox helper (chrome-sandbox) is shipped setuid root
so the sandbox works without --no-sandbox.

There are no SBo dependencies: the Debian runtime dependencies (gtk3,
nss, notify, atspi, drm, gbm, secret, xtst, xdg-utils,
xdg-desktop-portal) are all satisfied by a stock Slackware install, and
Chromium's own libraries are bundled inside the package.


NVCHECKER
---------
An nvchecker configuration file is installed alongside this README at:

  /usr/doc/claude-desktop-bin-VERSION/claude-desktop-bin.nvchecker

nvchecker (https://github.com/lilydjwg/nvchecker) is a tool for checking
new versions of software. Copy or include this file in your nvchecker
configuration to be notified when Anthropic publishes a new Claude
Desktop release.