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