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title: Install Cline on elementary OS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Cline for on elementary OS - Autonomous coding
  agent for your terminal
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/cline/elementary
---

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# Install Cline on **elementary OS**

# Cline

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/cline/elementary#install)

#### Autonomous coding agent for your terminal

Cline is an AI coding agent. It reads your project, edits files and runs
shell commands to complete a task, either in an interactive terminal UI
or headless for scripts and CI. It works with Cline accounts, ChatGPT
subscriptions and API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini,
OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, Groq and any OpenAI-compatible
endpoint, and supports MCP servers, plan/act modes and checkpoints.

**Examples**

```
cline auth
cd ~/my-project
cline
cline "Explain what this repository does"
cline --auto-approve false "Fix the failing tests"
git diff | cline "Review these changes"
```

**Access**

The agent works on projects in your home folder (except hidden folders
directly under it). For /media and /mnt, run:

```
sudo snap connect cline:removable-media
```

Commands the agent runs stay inside the snap. They can use bash, the
core utilities, git, ripgrep, curl, jq, patch, file, tree, zip, unzip
and xz. Toolchains installed on your system, such as node, npm, python,
go, cargo, make or docker, are not available to the agent.

Settings, credentials and sessions are stored in
~/snap/cline/common/cline. Updates come from the Snap Store.

### Package name

* cline

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### License

* Apache-2.0

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### Last updated

* Today - latest/stable
* Today - latest/candidate

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### Websites

* [cline.bot](https://cline.bot "https://cline.bot")

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### Contact

* [github.com/sidalit/cline-snap/issues](https://github.com/sidalit/cline-snap/issues "https://github.com/sidalit/cline-snap/issues")

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### Source code

* [github.com/cline/cline](https://github.com/cline/cline "https://github.com/cline/cline")
* [github.com/sidalit/cline-snap](https://github.com/sidalit/cline-snap "https://github.com/sidalit/cline-snap")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/cline/cline/issues](https://github.com/cline/cline/issues "https://github.com/cline/cline/issues")
* [github.com/sidalit/cline-snap/issues](https://github.com/sidalit/cline-snap/issues "https://github.com/sidalit/cline-snap/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/cline/elementary#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on elementary OS and install Cline

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open *Terminal* from the Applications launcher and type the following:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Cline

To install Cline, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install cline
```

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### More things to do…

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Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.

#### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs)

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