How to install WordPress Studio in Ubuntu Linux

Great news, WordPress Studio has officially supported Ubuntu Linux since June 11, 2026, and I’m very happy to have helped get it prioritized by the project team! Now you can download a .deb for Intel/AMD or ARM from the official project download page:

WordPress Studio is the simplest and fastest way to have a local WordPress development environment powered by WordPress Playground or native PHP binaries (now the default).

Deprecated: no longer needed now with the official support

I will leave these old instructions just in case someone wants to understand how it was done. They were based on Antony Agrios comment with detailed instructions in the launch post. To make it more accessible to others that want to try Studio in Ubuntu Linux, here are the steps with some minor changes from me.

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Automattic/studio.git wordpress-studio

git clone https://github.com/Automattic/studio.git wordpress-studio

2. Install dependencies

Requirement: have Node Version Manager (nvm) installed.

# Open repository folder
cd wordpress-studio

# Make sure you have the needed nvm version
nvm install

# Install dependencies
nvm use && npm install

# Fix vulnerabilities found
npm audit fix

# Open repository folder
cd wordpress-studio

# Make sure you have the needed nvm version
nvm install

# Install dependencies
nvm use && npm install

# Fix vulnerabilities found
npm audit fix

3. Create application files

# Create packages
npm run package

# Make it executable
chmod +x out/Studio-linux-x64/studio

# Create packages
npm run package

# Make it executable
chmod +x out/Studio-linux-x64/studio

4. Run

./out/Studio-linux-x64/studio

./out/Studio-linux-x64/studio

5. Optional: create launcher

This is a nice step to make it easier to launch. This is how it will look like:

To do this, create a new file for the launcher:

gnome-text-editor ~/.local/share/applications/studio.desktop

gnome-text-editor ~/.local/share/applications/studio.desktop

Paste the following content inside the file changing the two ABSOLUTE-PATH entries with the absolute path where you clone the repository in the first step.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Studio By WordPress.com dev
Comment=Studio By WordPress.com dev
Exec=/ABSOLUTE-PATH/wordpress-studio/out/Studio-linux-x64/studio %U
Icon=/ABSOLUTE-PATH/wordpress-studio/assets/studio-app-icon.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/wpcom-local-dev;
Categories=Development;

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Studio By WordPress.com dev
Comment=Studio By WordPress.com dev
Exec=/ABSOLUTE-PATH/wordpress-studio/out/Studio-linux-x64/studio %U
Icon=/ABSOLUTE-PATH/wordpress-studio/assets/studio-app-icon.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/wpcom-local-dev;
Categories=Development;

That’s it, have fun!