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Cowork is not supported on Linux. Cowork requires the Claude Desktop app for macOS or Windows and is not available on web or mobile. That said, there’s an active community working around this. A few unofficial projects bring Cowork to Linux:

• aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian — the most popular option, with over 3,300 GitHub stars, providing .deb, .rpm, AppImage, AUR, and Nix packages. It includes experimental Cowork mode with pluggable sandbox isolation (bubblewrap, KVM/QEMU, or host). PyShine
• johnzfitch/claude-cowork-linux — a reverse-engineered project that stubs the macOS-native pieces so Cowork can run directly on Linux (x86_64) without a VM. It’s an unofficial research preview and may break when Claude Desktop updates. GitHub

These are community projects — not officially supported by Anthropic — so they can be fragile and break with new Claude Desktop releases. If you want something stable on Linux, Claude Code (the CLI) is your best bet, as it natively supports Linux.

Gui App Install

Follow steps from the repo:

# Add the GPG key
curl -fsSL https://pkg.claude-desktop-debian.dev/KEY.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop.gpg
# Add the repository
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop.gpg arch=amd64,arm64] https://pkg.claude-desktop-debian.dev stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/claude-desktop.list
# Update and install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install claude-desktop

Launch it with

claude-desktop&

Claude Code Install

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

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