Install Biyan on Linux

1. Download the current signed package for your distribution from the Biyan website (opens in a new tab).
2. Install the package with your distribution's package manager, or mark the AppImage executable and launch it.
3. Open Biyan and add a cloud provider under Settings → Model Providers.

Biyan requires the desktop libraries expected by Tauri/WebKit on the selected distribution. It does not install GPU runtimes, llama.cpp, or a default local model.

Data

The default data location is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Biyan/ when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, otherwise ~/.config/Biyan/.

An upgrade may read an earlier application folder as a migration source. It does not remove that folder or retired model/RAG data. See Data and Migration.

Uninstall

Remove the package with the same package manager used to install it, or delete the AppImage. Application data remains unless you explicitly remove it.