Installing Rancher Desktop on Ubuntu in Dev Mode

Installing Rancher Desktop on Ubuntu in Dev Mode

This is a really simple and quick tutorial on how to install Rancher Desktop on Ubuntu like operating systems. The official Rancher Desktop website is https://rancherdesktop.io and the official installation docs for all Linux distros can be found at: https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/getting-started/installation/#linux

Let’s Dive!

InstallingRancher Desktop on Ubuntu

This command packs the punch: 

							
							
					curl -s https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/Rancher:/stable/deb/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo dd status=none of=/usr/share/keyrings/isv-rancher-stable-archive-keyring.gpg
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/isv-rancher-stable-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/Rancher:/stable/deb/ ./' | sudo dd status=none of=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/isv-rancher-stable.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install rancher-desktop				
			

Then to launch it you can either find the icon in your menu tray or launch it via the terminal with: 

							
							
					rancher-desktop				
			

That’s a wrap! 

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