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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.
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.
The single SBo dependency, edk2-ovmf, is required by the Cowork feature
(see below); it is not needed to launch or use Claude Desktop itself.
COWORK
------
Cowork runs the coding agent inside an isolated QEMU virtual machine.
It requires:
- qemu (shipped with Slackware)
- edk2-ovmf (OVMF UEFI firmware; the REQUIRES of this package)
- virtiofsd (bundled inside this package)
Cowork probes for the OVMF firmware at the Debian paths
/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE{,_4M}.fd. This package installs compatibility
symlinks there pointing at edk2-ovmf's /usr/share/edk2-ovmf-x64/ files,
so Cowork finds them with no manual setup.
For hardware acceleration the VM needs /dev/kvm, which is root:kvm 0660.
Add your user to the kvm group so the VM does not fall back to slow
software emulation:
# usermod -aG kvm <user>
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.
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