Install on Linux

SolarLayout for Linux ships as two formats:

• AppImage — portable single-file binary. Runs on most distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, etc.) without installation. Pick this if you're not sure.
• .deb — for Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint. Installs system-wide via apt or dpkg and adds a Start menu entry.

64-bit (x86_64) only. ARM builds will follow once external Linux ARM customers materialize.

Download for Linux.

AppImage

1. Download SolarLayout_<version>_amd64.AppImage.
2. Make it executable:

   chmod +x SolarLayout_<version>_amd64.AppImage

3. Run it:

   ./SolarLayout_<version>_amd64.AppImage

That's it. The AppImage carries every dependency it needs. No system packages, no root access.

To put it in your application menu, install AppImageLauncher — it'll add SolarLayout to your launcher automatically when you run the AppImage for the first time.

.deb (Debian / Ubuntu)

1. Download SolarLayout_<version>_amd64.deb.
2. Install:

   sudo apt install ./SolarLayout_<version>_amd64.deb

   or:

   sudo dpkg -i SolarLayout_<version>_amd64.deb
   sudo apt --fix-broken install   # if deps are missing

3. Launch from your application menu or by running solarlayout in a terminal.

First launch

Open SolarLayout from your application menu or the AppImage. You'll see the sign-in screen on first launch — click Sign in (or Create account), finish in your browser, and the app picks up automatically. See Signing in for the step-by-step.

Updates

SolarLayout checks for updates on launch.

For the .deb, the update banner replaces the installed binary in place (writes to /opt/solarlayout/ — may prompt for sudo on some distros).

For the AppImage, the update banner downloads a new AppImage alongside the old one and asks you to restart. The old AppImage stays on disk until you delete it manually.

Uninstall

AppImage: delete the .AppImage file from wherever you put it.

.deb:

sudo apt remove solarlayout

Your sign-in lives in ~/.config/solarlayout/credentials — delete that file if you also want to remove the saved sign-in.