--- title: Install Penpot Desktop on elementary OS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Penpot Desktop for on elementary OS - Design and code beautiful products. Together. url: https://snapcraft.io/install/penpot-desktop/elementary --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Penpot Desktop on **elementary OS** # Penpot Desktop [SudoVanilla](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/sudovanilla "View all snaps from SudoVanilla") * [SudoVanilla](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/sudovanilla "View all snaps from SudoVanilla") * [Art and Design](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=art-and-design) * [Development](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=development) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/penpot-desktop/elementary#install) #### Design and code beautiful products. Together. Designers and developers can now finally work in unison to build beautifully designed software experiences that can truly scale up. **Professional UI for the whole team** Design systems, components, interactive prototypes, feedback loop and pixel perfect designs come together in an extremely intuitive and powerful web user interface that opens up the design process to all stakeholders. **Designer & Developer collaboration for real** You can only truly collaborate when you actually enjoy sharing the same space. We bring both code-ready design capabilities and the familiarity of developer tools to a new workspace flow. **Open Standards that deliver future-proof ownership of your designs** Penpot unapologetically and unconditionally supports open standards for all your design work. Our SVG and web standards approach means zero vendor lock-in and extreme interoperability. **Unprecedented onboarding freedom** You get everything for free whether you choose to get your organization working on our Cloud service or self-host your own Penpot instance. There's even a multi-OS desktop option coming from our amazing community! Penpot projects can be moved around easily across all Penpot deployment flavors so you're free to change your mind at any time! **Interactive prototyping** Create rich interactions to mimic the product behavior. Share them to stakeholders, present proposals to your team and start user testing with your designs, all in one place. **Real-time collaboration** It's teamwork that makes design whole. Penpot provides features that allow designers, developers and stakeholders to collaborate sharing the same space. **Developer tools** Developers are at the core of Penpot's vision. We make sure they can use it as part of their productivity tools thanks to intuitive navigation and code and properties introspection. The built-in read-only mode brings a great safety net! **Public resources** We build this community together. We have built an accessible place to learn more about Penpot. Once you become familiar with it, you can easily start helping other by contributing libraries & templates or even code! * Help Center: * YouTube: * Libraries & Templates: Penpot Desktop delivers a desktop-like experience for Penpot users with the additional of integrating tabs to conveniently traverse back and forth between projects. Offline support is available through the select your own instance option in settings, as well as the theme settings that may be applied to either the entire desktop app or simply the Penpot dashboard. ### Package name * penpot-desktop --- ### License * AGPL-1.0-or-later --- ### Last updated * 29 March 2024 - latest/stable * 24 May 2024 - latest/edge This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues. --- ### Websites * [sudovanilla.org](https://sudovanilla.org/ "https://sudovanilla.org/") --- ### Contact * [support@sudovanilla.org](mailto:support@sudovanilla.org "mailto:support@sudovanilla.org") --- ### Donations * [liberapay.com](https://liberapay.com/SudoVanilla/ "https://liberapay.com/SudoVanilla/") --- ### Source code * [ark.sudovanilla.org](https://ark.sudovanilla.org/Korbs/Penpot-Desktop/ "https://ark.sudovanilla.org/Korbs/Penpot-Desktop/") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/penpot-desktop/elementary#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on elementary OS and install Penpot Desktop 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 Penpot Desktop To install Penpot Desktop, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install penpot-desktop ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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