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Obsidian is available for all major desktop and mobile platforms. These are all the supported ways to download and install Obsidian.
If you use Linux, you can install Obsidian in several ways. Follow the instructions for the packaging system that you're using.
Open your browser and go to Download Obsidian.
Under Linux, click Snap to download the installation file.
Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the installation file.
In the terminal, run the following command to install the Snap package: (the --dangerous
flag is required because Canonical, the company who created Snap, didn't review our package, the --classic
flag allows Obsidian to access outside of the sandbox, where your notes are stored)
snap install obsidian_<version>_<arch>.snap --dangerous --classic
Open Obsidian the same way you would open any other application.
Open your browser and go to Download Obsidian.
Under Linux, click AppImage to download the installation file.
Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the installation file.
In the terminal, run the following command to open Obsidian:
chmod u+x Obsidian-<version>.AppImage
./Obsidian-<version>.AppImage
Note: On Chromebooks, the libnss3-dev
package must be installed or you may receive the error error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
.
In your terminal, run the following command to install Obsidian:
flatpak install flathub md.obsidian.Obsidian
Open Obsidian by running the following command:
flatpak run md.obsidian.Obsidian
You can optionally download the APK for Android from the Download Obsidian page.