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Wire for Linux has comparable functionality with Wire for Windows and macOS, and calls, video calls, etc. work cross-platform. However, it is an experimental build and we expect to see some issues in day-to-day usage. We don't offer official support at the moment, but any issues can be reported via https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop.

Table of Contents

Installation on Debian-based distributions

This will work for Debian, Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based distributions, like Xubuntu, Kubuntu or Mint.

  1. Install apt-transport-https to receive the package via HTTPS

     sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

  2. Import our PGP signing key to be able to verify the downloaded package

     wget -q https://wire-app.wire.com/linux/releases.key -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/wire-desktop.key

  3. Add our repository address to your sources list

     echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/wire-desktop.key]  https://wire-app.wire.com/linux/debian stable main" \
   | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wire-desktop.list

  4. Update your local list of available packages

     sudo apt-get update

  5. Install wire-desktop

     sudo apt-get install wire-desktop

Update Wire on Debian-based distributions

  1. Run the commands:

     sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get upgrade

Installation with AppImage

  1. Go to our releases page

  2. Scroll to the latest Linux release.

  3. Download the assets and verify the signed hashes:

    wget https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/releases/download/linux%2F3.35.3348/sha256sum.txt.asc
gpg --verify sha256sum.txt.asc
wget https://github.com/wireapp/wire-desktop/releases/download/linux%2F3.35.3348/Wire-3.35.3348_x86_64.AppImage
sha256sum Wire-3.35.3348_x86_64.AppImage ; grep Wire-3.35.3348_x86_64.AppImage sha256sum.txt.asc

  4. Make AppImage executable

     chmod +x Wire*.AppImage

  5. Run AppImage