Linux Installation

We ship Headlamp the Linux desktop in several formats: Flatpak, AppImage, Tarballs.

Flatpak

Flatpak gives an isolated and bundled way of running Headlamp, with decoupled runtime updates (besides other benefits).

Make sure you install Flatpak and enable the flathub repository, then install Headlamp with the following command:

flatpak install io.kinvolk.Headlamp

For running it, just launch it as usually in your Linux desktop, or run:

flatpak run io.kinvolk.Headlamp

Upgrading

To upgrading Headlamp when it's installed via Flatpak, run:

flatpak update io.kinvolk.Headlamp

AppImage

Headlamp can be used as an AppImage by downloading and running it directly.

To download, choose the AppImage file from the latest release page. You can then run it with the following command (examplified for the AMD64, 0.16.0 version):

./Headlamp-0.16.0-linux-x64.AppImage

Tarballs

To run Headlamp from one of the tarballs, after downloading the tarball for the latest release, you have to extract the contents from it and run the headlamp binary in the resulting folder (examplified below for the AMD64, 0.16.0 version):

tar xvzf ./Headlamp-0.16.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd Headlamp-0.16.0-linux-x64
./headlamp