Unofficial Perplexity for Linux client
Perplexity Linux A minimal Electron desktop wrapper for Perplexity that runs the official web app in a clean, native window with persistent login and optional mic/camera access for voice.
Not affiliated with Perplexity. Uses the official Perplexity web UI.
✨ Features Native desktop window for Perplexity Persistent login (separate app session) External links open in your default browser Optional mic/camera access (Linux Snap plugs)
📦 Installation Install via Snap (Recommended) If your system supports Snap, you can install directly from the Snap Store:
Get it from the Snap Store
sudo snap install perplexity
📹 Enabling Video Calls and Audio (Required Setup) To use video calls, voice calls, and microphone features in Teams, you need to manually enable camera and audio permissions after installation:
sudo snap connect perplexity:camera sudo snap connect perplexity:audio-record sudo snap connect perplexity:audio-playback sudo snap connect perplexity:pulseaudio
Once installed, start the app from your system application menu or by running:
perplexity
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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, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 9 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
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
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install perplexity, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install perplexity
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