claude-desktop-package/README.md

claude-desktop-package

Repackages Claude Desktop 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)

Uses the shared lair-cafe dnf repo (same repo/GPG key as the other lair packages). If you've already configured lair-cafe.repo on a host, just sudo dnf install claude-desktop. Otherwise:

sudo rpm --import https://rpm.lair.cafe/8b2023ce.gpg
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/lair-cafe.repo > /dev/null <<'EOF'
[lair-cafe]
name=lair.cafe RPM Repository
baseurl=https://rpm.lair.cafe/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://rpm.lair.cafe/8b2023ce.gpg
EOF
sudo dnf install claude-desktop

Subsequent dnf upgrade picks up new Claude Desktop versions automatically.

Runtime notes

If Chromium's sandbox misbehaves on a host with restricted user namespaces: claude-desktop --no-sandbox, or sudo sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1.