# Install Docker Desktop on Arch-based distributions — Install Docker Desktop

> Install the Docker client binary on Linux. Static binaries for the Docker client are available for Linux as docker. You can use Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```console $ wget https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-{{% param "docker_ce_ver

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Install the Docker client binary on Linux. Static binaries for the Docker client are available for Linux as docker. You can use

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ wget https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-{{% param "docker_ce_version" %}}.tgz -qO- | tar xvfz - docker/docker --strip-components=1
   $ sudo cp -rp ./docker /usr/local/bin/ &amp;&amp; rm -r ./docker
```

Download the latest Arch package from the Release notes.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ sudo pacman -U ./docker-desktop-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
```

By default, Docker Desktop is installed at /opt/docker-desktop.

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