# Installing Pinegrow in Ubuntu 18.04?

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/installing-pinegrow-in-ubuntu-18-04/2165>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 3, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/installing-pinegrow-in-ubuntu-18-04/2165 "2018-09-03T11:28:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pinegrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@pinegrow](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/pinegrow)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/installing-pinegrow-in-ubuntu-18-04/2165/1 "2018-09-03T11:28:01Z")

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How do you create a launcher in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome for Pinegrow?

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**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/installing-pinegrow-in-ubuntu-18-04/2165/2 "2018-09-07T21:11:27Z")

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Hi, you could search this forum ? 🙂  
Top right search box? (for future reference - the Magnifying glass symbol near to you Login Icon)

That returned these two hits

> [@How to install Pinegrow 3.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.2?](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/how-to-install-pinegrow-3-0-on-ubuntu-16-04-2/1049):
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> Hello All, After switching to Pinegrow from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 16.04.2 I had to try to get Pinegrow installed but had issues. I’m listing a link to help others get installed and/or get advice/instructions from others on proper installation on Ubuntu Linux. Here are the steps I performed and Pinegrow is working on my Ubuntu Desktop: Any advice or corrections are welcome. slight_smile

that explains the pinegrow.desktop bit you need to create a launcher (on Ubuntu 16… not sure if there are differences for 18)

and then, this link explains about where to grab the Icon, for using in the launcher.

> [@Install Pinegrow on Linux (+ Atom)](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/install-pinegrow-on-linux-atom/874):
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> I am a Linux (Mint 18.1) user and I decided to try out Pinegrow. I am mostly doing development on NWJS apps at the moment. I was fuzzy about how to install Pinegrow, but being familiar with this sort of program I knew that they were fairly simple to make work. So I just downloaded PinegrowLinux64.2.951.zip and unzipped it into a temporary folder. I found the files that I expected, and just clicked on “Pinegrow Web Designer” and everything seemed to work. After looking the package over I dec…

…I also thought I had created an article on this too… I can’t find it at the moment though.  
Anyway, good luck with it, let us knwo how it goes 🙂