---
title: Install harper on Fedora using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of harper for on Fedora - Offline, privacy-first
  grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered.
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/harper/fedora
---

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# Install harper on **Fedora**

# harper

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/harper/fedora#install)

#### Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered.

Harper is an English grammar checker designed to be just right. I created it
after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.

Grammarly was too expensive and too overbearing. Its suggestions lacked
context, and were often just plain wrong. Not to mention: it's a privacy
nightmare. Everything you write with Grammarly is sent to their servers. Their
privacy policy claims they don't sell the data, but that doesn't mean they
don't use it to train large language models and god knows what else. Not only
that, but the round-trip-time of the network request makes revising your work
all the more tedious.

LanguageTool is great, if you have gigabytes of RAM to spare and are willing
to download the ~16GB n-gram dataset. Besides the memory requirements, I found
LanguageTool too slow: it would take several seconds to lint even a
moderate-size document.

That's why I created Harper: it is the grammar checker that fits my needs. Not
only does it take milliseconds to lint a document, take less than 1/50th of
LanguageTool's memory footprint, but it is also completely private.

This snap bundles the harper-ls Language Server and experimental harper-cli
tool.

If you store documents on an external USB drive or similar, ensure you
manually connect the removable-media interface after installing the snap:

```
 snap connect harper:removable-media
```

### Package name

* harper

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### License

* Apache-2.0

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### Last updated

* 1 August 2025 - latest/edge

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

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## Enable snaps on Fedora and install harper

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 Fedora from the command line:

```
sudo dnf install snapd
```

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

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

### Install harper

To install harper, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install harper --edge
```

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