Install DevPod

To get started with DevPod, choose either the DevPod Desktop application or the DevPod CLI.

Install DevPod

Download DevPod Desktop:

• MacOS Silicon/ARM
• MacOS Intel/AMD
• Windows
• Linux AppImage
• Linux Targz

Previous Releases

For earlier versions, visit the GitHub releases page

Linux Packages

The official package is the Appimage, it has been tested working on:

• Debian 12 and newer
• Ubuntu 22.04 and newer
• Fedora 36 and newer
• Opensuse Leap 15.3 and newer
• Opensuse Tumbleweed
• Archlinux

Make sure you have the following dependencies installed for the Appimage to work (usually already installed in desktop distributions):

• glibc version 2.35+
• fuse2, fuse2 libraries, libopengl, libfribidi, libegl, libxgl
  • sudo apt-get install fuse libfuse2 libopengl0 libfribidi0 libgles2-mesa
  • sudo dnf install fuse fuse-libs libglvnd-egl libglvnd-opengl libglvnd-glx harfbuzz fontconfig fribidi libthai
  • sudo zypper in fuse libfuse2 libharfbuzz0 libfribidi0 libthai0

These are generally needed for AppImage to work; they are not specific to DevPod.

Windows Packages

Make sure you have the following dependencies installed for the Desktop App to work:

• WebView 2

Note that WebView 2 is normally already installed on recent versions of Windows and should not need installing unless you experience issues.

Linux Custom Packages

Since we're not providing deb or rpm packages anymore, we're now providing a tar.gz that can be used as source for your custom package.

Keep in mind the following dependencies need to be declared in the package for the correct functioning of the program:

• libappindicator3-1
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libbsd0
• libxdmcp6
• libwmf-0.2-7
• libwmf-0.2-7-gtk
• libgtk-3-0
• libwmf-dev
• libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
• librust-openssl-sys-dev
• librust-glib-sys-dev

On Fedora: sudo dnf install libappindicator-gtk3

Install DevPod CLI

Alternatively, you can also use the CLI instead of the desktop application. The DevPod CLI is useful for managing DevPod directly from a terminal. Choose an installation method below, or install it later from the Desktop App."

MacOS Silicon/ARM

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-darwin-arm64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod

MacOS Intel/AMD

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-darwin-amd64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod

Windows

md -Force "$Env:APPDATA\devpod"; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]'Tls,Tls11,Tls12';
Invoke-WebRequest -URI "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-windows-amd64.exe" -OutFile $Env:APPDATA\devpod\devpod.exe;
$env:Path += ";" + $Env:APPDATA + "\devpod";
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User);

Linux AMD

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-linux-amd64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod

Linux ARM

curl -L -o devpod "https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod/releases/latest/download/devpod-linux-arm64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 devpod /usr/local/bin && rm -f devpod