Installing Kiro on Fedora / Red Hat

Source: Dev.to

Overview

What this guide does

• Installs the Kiro IDE desktop app from the official download server
• Sets up a desktop entry so you can launch Kiro from your application menu
• Optionally installs the Kiro CLI (kiro-cli and q) for command‑line use

Requirements: Fedora or Red Hat‑based Linux (x64).

Prerequisites

Install required tools before starting:

sudo dnf install -y curl unzip jq

Install Kiro IDE (Desktop App)

Step 1: Get the latest tarball URL and download

KIRO_URL=$(curl -fsSL https://prod.download.desktop.kiro.dev/stable/metadata-linux-x64-stable.json \
  | jq -r '.releases[].updateTo.url | select(endswith(".tar.gz"))' | head -1)
curl -L -o /tmp/kiro.tar.gz "$KIRO_URL"

Step 2: Extract and install

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kiro
tar -xf /tmp/kiro.tar.gz -C ~/.local/share/kiro --strip-components=1
rm /tmp/kiro.tar.gz

Step 3: Add to PATH

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
ln -sf ~/.local/share/kiro/kiro ~/.local/bin/kiro
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Step 4: Create desktop entry

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cat > ~/.local/share/applications/kiro.desktop