Install Claude-Desktop under (arch) linux with MCP

Under Arch Linux there are three nativ way’s to install Claude-Desktop via AUR

You have :

claude-desktop uses the app version 1.0.0 the repo of the package maintaner was last updated over 2 years ago. This version does’nt support MCP neather

claude-desktop-bin i wasn’t able to install this package at all

claude-desktop-native the package was not existing anymore and the installation broke with

claude-desktop-native - exit status 1 

i tried all of them, and each of them had there issues.

So i decided to try out an App-Image. I found this repo by fsoft72 https://github.com/fsoft72/claude-desktop-to-appimage . This App-Images uses a windows executable and download the latest version for the build process.

TL;DR

to make it short for you

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/fsoft72/claude-desktop-to-appimage.git
cd claude-desktop-to-appimage

# Build the AppImage
./build-appimage.sh

During the Build process the script will ask for

if you run in a build error that says that electron files are missing you can solv it by including electron into the app- image:

./build-appimage.sh --bundle-electron

after the build have finished make the app image excutable and move it :

chmod +x Claude_Desktop-*
mv Claude_Desktop-* /usr/bin/claude-desktop

Update the app-image

If anthropic updates claude-desktop and you want to update version to. Than just run those commands again or in short:

./build-appimage.sh
chmod +x Claude_Desktop-*
mv Claude_Desktop-* /usr/bin/claude-desktop