Take Claude Desktop from the repository that now carries it
It was `panama app claude-desktop`: a source build, because nothing packaged it. Upstream publishes an RPM repository now, so the exception shrinks to adding that repository -- and the result upgrades with `dnf upgrade` along with everything else instead of needing a slow rebuild every time a version ships. That moves it out of setup/apps/ and into the third-party section of install-packages, beside Bun, Claude Code and RustDesk. It also means it is part of ./install for the first time. The reason it was kept out was the build: slow, wants the network throughout, and fails on an upstream that moved, which is the failure the interview exists to prevent. A dnf install is none of those, and the default dock pins com.anthropic.Claude, so a fresh machine was shipping a pin for something the install had never put there. The repository is added with upstream's own setup script rather than a .repo file written out here. A baseurl copied into this repository is a pin by another name; the script is the part upstream keeps correct. Both halves are skipped when already present, so a re-run costs nothing. The desktop entry id does not change -- it is still com.anthropic.Claude -- so the dock pin and the notification rules carry over untouched. The new package drops the nodejs dependency, which is what used to hide the missing-npm bug the launcher search contract guards; its comment said "depends" in the present tense and now says what actually happened.
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$PROGRAM upgrade
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$PROGRAM apps
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$PROGRAM app
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$PROGRAM app claude-desktop
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$PROGRAM app chatgpt-desktop
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EOF
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}
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@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
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# Claude Desktop.
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#
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# Anthropic ships macOS and Windows only. This is a community wrapper that
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# downloads the official build, bundles Electron, and packages the result as a
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# proper Fedora RPM -- so what lands on the system is still a package dnf owns
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# and can remove, which is the part of the dnf/flatpak rule that matters most.
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#
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# The exception it needs is the build itself. There is no RPM or flatpak of
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# Claude Desktop to install, so the choice is building one or not having it.
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# Nothing is pinned: the default branch is built every time, and a failure is
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# reported rather than worked around. sunhat pinned versions and every pin was
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# a 404 within a release cycle.
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description="Claude Desktop, built into a Fedora RPM"
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repo="https://github.com/dewzor/claude-desktop-fedora.git"
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# The upstream script installs its own build dependencies and prints the RPM it
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# produced. It needs root because of that dependency install.
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build() {
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sudo ./build-fedora.sh
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local rpm
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rpm="$(find build -name 'claude-desktop-*.rpm' -newermt '-1 hour' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
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[[ -n "$rpm" ]] || rpm="$(find . -name 'claude-desktop-*.rpm' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
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[[ -n "$rpm" ]] || { printf 'the build produced no RPM\n' >&2; return 1; }
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sudo dnf install -y "$rpm"
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}
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@@ -151,10 +151,14 @@ fi
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# --- Applications no repository packages -------------------------------------
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#
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# Everything else Panama installs comes from dnf or Flathub. These three do not
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# Everything else Panama installs comes from dnf or Flathub. These four do not
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# exist in either, so each is an explicit exception with a reason, and each is
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# skipped when already present so a re-run costs nothing.
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#
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# Claude Desktop is the half-exception: a repository does carry it, just not one
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# Fedora or Flathub knows about, so what is exceptional there is adding the
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# repository rather than installing around one.
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#
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# None of them pins a version. sunhat pinned URLs -- upscayl 2.11.5, LACT 0.5.4,
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# a fedora-40 RPM -- and every one of them was a 404 within a release cycle. An
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# installer that resolves "latest" keeps working; one that names a version rots.
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@@ -180,6 +184,28 @@ else
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curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash > /dev/null 2>&1 || log "Claude Code install failed; skipping"
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fi
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# Claude Desktop: Anthropic ships macOS and Windows only, so this is a community
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# RPM built from the official release. Panama used to build it from source -- it
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# was `panama app claude-desktop` -- because no repository carried it. Upstream
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# publishes one now, which is strictly better: the result upgrades with every
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# other package instead of needing a slow rebuild each time a version ships.
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#
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# The repository is added by upstream's own setup script rather than by writing
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# the .repo file out here. A baseurl copied into this repository is a pin by
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# another name, and that script is the part upstream keeps correct.
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if rpm -q claude-desktop-extra >/dev/null 2>&1; then
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log "Claude Desktop already installed"
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else
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if [[ ! -f /etc/yum.repos.d/claude-desktop.repo ]]; then
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log "Adding the Claude Desktop repository..."
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curl -fsSL https://patrickjaja.github.io/claude-desktop-extra/install-rpm.sh \
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| sudo bash > /dev/null 2>&1 || log "Could not add the Claude Desktop repository"
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fi
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log "Installing Claude Desktop..."
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sudo dnf install -y claude-desktop-extra > /dev/null \
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|| log "Claude Desktop install failed; skipping"
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fi
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# RustDesk: remote desktop. The flatpak cannot register the root-owned system
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# service that unattended access needs -- see panama-doctor's rustdesk check --
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# so this takes the RPM. The download URL is resolved from the latest release
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@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ grep -q 'command -v npm' "$stage" \
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# Checking for npm is not enough. Node comes from nvm, whose script only an
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# interactive shell sources -- and a stage is not one, so npm is absent unless
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# the stage goes and gets it. This machine hid that: a system npm existed only
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# because Claude Desktop depends on nodejs. Without this line, a fresh install
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# builds no extension and says so in one line nobody reads.
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# because the Claude Desktop of the day pulled in nodejs. It no longer does, so
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# nothing hides it any more. Without this line, a fresh install builds no
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# extension and says so in one line nobody reads.
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grep -q '/etc/profile.d/nvm.sh' "$stage" \
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|| note 'the extension build never sources nvm, so npm is missing on any machine without a system node'
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