Package Details: claude-desktop-bin 1.24012.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/claude-desktop-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: claude-desktop-bin
Description: Claude Desktop - Linux (unofficial, repackaged from the official Linux .deb)
Upstream URL: https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin
Keywords: ai anthropic claude cowork
Licenses: custom:Claude
Submitter: Somvilla
Maintainer: patrickjaja
Last Packager: patrickjaja
Votes: 23
Popularity: 6.89
First Submitted: 2024-12-19 00:17 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-07-21 23:04 (UTC)

Required by (0)

Sources (2)

Latest Comments

« First ‹ Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next › Last »

essenciary commented on 2026-02-16 18:30 (UTC)

Installation and upgrade is broken as of today. Ex install error:

$ /usr/bin/bash -c "paru -S claude-desktop-bin;echo 'PAKtC'" :: Resolving dependencies... :: Calculating conflicts... :: Calculating inner conflicts...

Aur (1) Old Version New Version Make Only aur/claude-desktop-bin 1.1.3189-4 No

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]:

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs... PKGBUILDs up to date nothing new to review fetching devel info... ==> Making package: claude-desktop-bin 1.1.3189-4 (lun 16 feb 2026 19:23:13) ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found claude-desktop-1.1.3189-linux.tar.gz ==> Validating source_x86_64 files with sha256sums... claude-desktop-1.1.3189-linux.tar.gz ... FAILED ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check! error: failed to download sources for 'claude-desktop-bin-1.1.3189-4': error: packages failed to build: claude-desktop-bin-1.1.3189-4 PAKtC

patrickjaja commented on 2026-02-16 13:33 (UTC) (edited on 2026-02-16 13:48 (UTC) by patrickjaja)

@sohimaster Good point — I can see how the AUR naming could be read as if this is an official Anthropic package, which it isn't. The intent was to clarify that it uses the official binary (not a rebuild), but I agree the wording is misleading. I'll update the AUR description to make the distinction clearer. Thanks for flagging this.

@abra5umente Perfect, thanks for your amazing feedback and investment.

Here's where things stand with the issues you reported — I just pushed fixes to both repos today:

Fixed in today's update (v0.3.2 of claude-cowork-service + latest claude-desktop-bin):

  • ENOSPC / EXDEV on tmpfs /tmp: Root cause eliminated. The bundle config now uses an empty file list for Linux (linux:{x64:[]}), so no VM bundle download happens at all. Since our native backend runs Claude Code directly on the host, we don't need VM images. The TMPDIR workaround is no longer necessary.

  • EXDEV cross-device rename: The patch is now version-resilient (flexible fs module name matching), but since downloads are skipped entirely it's just a safety net now.

  • Path resolution: The cowork service now does bidirectional path remapping — stdin messages from Desktop (initialize, workspace folders) had unresolved /sessions/<name> paths that Claude Code couldn't find. These are now rewritten to real paths on the way in and restored on the way out.

  • Event write corruption: Fixed a race condition where concurrent event callbacks could interleave length-prefixed messages on the socket, potentially causing hangs or stalled responses.

  • Browse plugin is working now (Claude Desktop has built-in MCP servers).

Still investigating (please check these again on your system):

  • Opus. The concurrent write fix might help, but I suspect there's something specific about Opus's longer streaming responses (larger payloads, more stream-json chunks). Can you check again?

  • Local sessions not appearing in sidebar: Please check this one again, it might was a follow-up error.

  • Follow-up messages queuing: Likely related to the path remapping + event write fixes. Please re-test after updating.

To update: yay -S claude-cowork-service claude-desktop-bin, (it automatically restarts the service with systemctl --user restart claude-cowork).

@StratosL thanks for your testing & feedback. Very appreciated!

abra5umente commented on 2026-02-15 06:46 (UTC) (edited on 2026-02-15 06:46 (UTC) by abra5umente)

Cowork mostly works on EndeavourOS (Plasma 6, Wayland, NVIDIA) some findings after a lot of testing lmao

  • if /tmp is tmpfs, you'll hit ENOSPC or EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted during VM bundle setup. To fix, mkdir -p ~/.cache/claude-tmp and launch with TMPDIR=~/.cache/claude-tmp
  • the VM itself downloads, starts, and connects fine
  • tasks execute correctly (files get created/moved/organised etc)
  • Sonnet works well, responses render in real time

things that don't work:

  • opus responses hang on "Working through a copmlex response..." indefinitely. Sonnet same task works just fine. Unsure what the difference here is - I've had one Opus session work, the rest don't
  • new local sessions don't appear in sidebar without a page refresh (the local_ prefixed UUIDs fail the React validation with path.conversation_uuid: Input should be a valid UUID, found 'l' at 1
  • follow-up messages to the model queue indefinitely instead of sending. Hitting stop unsticks it, or refreshing the page (ctrl R) shows model responses
  • Browse plugin modal renders but all content is not streamed in

decided to comment here instead of on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claude-cowork-service because the actual cowork service itself seems to be working just fine - these issues are with the Claude desktop app itself

happy to send through whatever debugs you may need on github

StratosL commented on 2026-02-14 15:40 (UTC)

@patrikjaja Cowork.... WORKS!

sohimaster commented on 2026-02-13 12:07 (UTC)

Why your github says "Unofficial Linux packages for Claude Desktop AI assistant with automated updates." while the AUR page says "Claude AI Desktop Application (Official Binary - Linux Compatible)".

This is very misleading.

patrickjaja commented on 2026-02-11 16:46 (UTC) (edited on 2026-02-12 08:32 (UTC) by patrickjaja)

Added a couple of Linux fixes.

I fully enabled and supported "Cowork" for Linux.

  • yay -Scc --noconfirm
  • yay -S claude-cowork-service --noconfirm
  • systemctl --user enable --now claude-cowork
  • yay -S claude-desktop-bin --noconfirm

@StratosL Want to be the first Linux user using Cowork? Feedback is welcome!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/claude-cowork-service

StratosL commented on 2026-02-11 07:58 (UTC)

What a tease, to see the cowork screen and not being able to use it. The exact message is:

Failed to start Claude's workspace VM not supported on Linux

patrickjaja commented on 2026-02-10 23:00 (UTC) (edited on 2026-02-10 23:01 (UTC) by patrickjaja)

1.1.2685

The latest version had a breaking issue caused by an upstream Anthropic update — this is now fixed. I've also added automated checks to the pipeline to prevent broken releases in the future.

Cowork is now accessible by spoofing "windows" for the claude.ai webapp. You can also reach it via Ctrl+2, though it's currently non-functional outside macOS - it's not recommended to open that dark gate of functionality.

Tip: Press Alt to toggle the app menu bar (Electron default)

patrickjaja commented on 2026-02-02 11:07 (UTC) (edited on 2026-02-02 13:17 (UTC) by patrickjaja)

Anthropic recently pushed couple of changes (i.e. they have removed the built in title bar and now falling back to windows/mac title bars).

tl;dr

Our linux version was patched following their code. Their latest version is 1.1.1520

https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2026-02-02

https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2026-01-30

update:

  • yay -Scc --noconfirm

  • yay -S claude-desktop-bin --noconfirm

« First ‹ Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next › Last »