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How to Install DocFila on Linux — Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch & More

By DocFila Team · September 4, 2026 · 4 min read

DocFila's native desktop apps are built for macOS (available now) and Windows (coming soon). On Linux, the DocFila web app installs as a desktop application through any Chromium-based browser on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Manjaro, Pop!_OS, openSUSE and others: you get a .desktop entry in your application menu, GNOME / KDE / XFCE integration and offline access to documents you have opened — without sudo, snap or flatpak.

What you'll need

• Any modern Linux distribution (Ubuntu 22.04+, Fedora 38+, Arch, Debian 12+, Pop!_OS, Manjaro, openSUSE and more).
• Google Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Brave, or Vivaldi. Firefox does not support installing web apps on Linux.
• No sudo or root: the app installs into your user directory only.

Step-by-step install (any Chromium browser)

1. Open www.docfila.com in Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Brave or Vivaldi.
2. Look at the right side of the address bar for the install icon (a small monitor with a down arrow).
3. Click it, then click Install in the popup.
4. DocFila launches in its own window, and a .desktop entry appears in your application menu so you can launch it like any other app.

Distro-specific notes

Ubuntu / Pop!_OS / Mint: use Chromium from the official Snap or apt repository, or install Google Chrome from google.com/chrome. After install, DocFila appears in the GNOME Activities overview.

Fedora: use Chromium from RPM Fusion or install Chrome from the official RPM.

Arch / Manjaro: sudo pacman -S chromium, then follow the steps above. The .desktop entry lands in ~/.local/share/applications/.

Wayland, multi-monitor, and offline

The installed web app runs on Wayland and Xorg, and multi-monitor and HiDPI scaling work because the host browser handles them. It caches itself on first launch, so documents you have opened stay available on a laptop without Wi-Fi and sync when you reconnect. See the desktop download page for the native macOS and Windows apps.

Uninstalling

From the running app, open the window menu (the three dots) and choose Uninstall DocFila. Or remove the .desktop entry by hand — find it with ls ~/.local/share/applications/ | grep -i docfila and delete that file.

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