Download Riot Desktop

Current release: v1.6.8

Builds are available for:

• macOS
• Windows 10 or later (32 bit) (currently unavailable, follow this issue for updates)
• Windows 10 or later (64 bit)
• Debian/Ubuntu (64 bit) repository:
  • For Debian 9 (Stretch), Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial), and later:

    sudo apt install -y wget apt-transport-https
    sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.riot.im/debian/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg
    echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.riot.im/debian/ default main" |
        sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/riot-im.list
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install riot-desktop
    

  • For Debian 8 (Jessie):

    sudo apt install -y wget apt-transport-https
    sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.riot.im/debian/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg
    echo "deb [signed-by=75741890063E5E9A46135D01C2850B265AC085BD] https://packages.riot.im/debian/ default main" |
        sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/riot-im.list
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install riot-desktop
    

  Note: if you followed a previous version of these instructions which recommended using apt-key add to add an old key from https://riot.im/packages, you should note that this key has been revoked. You should remove the old key with sudo apt-key remove 6FEB6F83D48B93547E7DFEDEE019645248E8F4A1, and follow the instructions above to update your configuration.
• Linux 32 bit support has been dropped by Electron
• Build instructions for other platforms here

For more info, see the blog.