# claude-desktop-package Repackages [Claude Desktop](https://claude.ai) into signed RPMs for Fedora 43 & 44 and publishes them to the self-hosted dnf repo at `rpm.lair.cafe`. Claude Desktop's in-app updater is macOS/Windows-only (Electron native `autoUpdater`), so on Linux it never self-updates. Anthropic ships a Debian/apt repo but no dnf repo; this repo is the Fedora equivalent, tracking upstream and rebuilding automatically. ## How it works - **poll-upstream** — every 6h, reads Anthropic's apt `Packages` index for the latest version and dispatches a build if `rpm.lair.cafe` doesn't already have it. - **build-release** — downloads and checksum-verifies the upstream `.deb`, repackages the prebuilt Electron bundle as an RPM (`rpm/claude-desktop.spec`), signs it, and publishes to fc43 + fc44 trees. No app source lives here — only packaging. See `CLAUDE.md` for details. ## Install (Fedora) ```bash sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/lair.repo <<'EOF' [lair] name=lair baseurl=https://rpm.lair.cafe/fedora/$releasever/x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://rpm.lair.cafe/RPM-GPG-KEY-lair EOF sudo dnf install claude-desktop ``` (Use the same `.repo`/GPG-key convention as the other `lair` packages if one already exists on your hosts.)