Debian / Pi OS / Ubuntu (ARM32/64) #

Installing Pi-Apps is as simple as running this one command in a terminal

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

To install manually if you prefer to see what happens under the hood

git clone https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps && ~/pi-apps/install

To uninstall Pi-Apps you can use the built in uninstall script

~/pi-apps/uninstall

Supported systems: #

Raspberry Pi (2/3/Zero 2 W/4/5) #

• Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit/64-bit) (Bullseye/Bookworm): fully supported
• Ubuntu (Jammy/Noble): fully supported

Nintendo Switch #

• Switchroot L4T Ubuntu Noble (24.04): fully supported
• Switchroot L4T Ubuntu Jammy (22.04): fully supported

Nvidia Jetson #

• Nvidia Jetpack 6 (Ubuntu Jammy): fully supported
• Nvidia Jetpack 5 (Ubuntu Focal): fully supported

Apple Silicon Macs #

• Ubuntu Asahi (Ubuntu Noble): Not actively tested but all available apps should work

Pine64, Orange Pi, Radxa, Banana Pi, Khadas, Inovato, Libre Computer, and other ARMv7/ARMv8/ARMv9 Devices #

• Debian Bullseye/Bookworm (Official Releases from Debian ONLY): Not actively tested but all available apps should work
• Ubuntu Focal/Jammy/Noble (Official Releases from Canonical ONLY): Not actively tested but all available apps should work

Unsupported systems: #

• Raspberry Pi Pico: These devices are microcontrollers and cannot run linux.
• All UNOFFICIAL Debian and Ubuntu based releases (unless mentioned above): Expect many apps to have issues.
  • Examples: Orange Pi OS, Pop_OS!, Kali Linux, and ChromeOS Crostini Debian Container
• Anything Non-Debian and Non-Ubuntu: Expect the majority of apps and the appstore to be broken.
  • Examples: Slackware, RHEL, Fedora, SUSE, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Void Linux, NixOS
• Anything not already mentioned: Expect nothing to work.
  • Examples: Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Android, and ChromeOS