# For how much would you port Delta.chat to ARM / Raspberry Pi?

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**Created:** [August 28, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/for-how-much-would-you-port-delta-chat-to-arm-raspberry-pi/1820 "2021-08-28T22:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![dotlambda](https://forum.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@dotlambda](https://forum.delta.chat/u/dotlambda)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/for-how-much-would-you-port-delta-chat-to-arm-raspberry-pi/1820/2 "2021-08-29T02:57:49Z")

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I assume you’re talking about [deltachat-desktop](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop)? You can actually get that for ARM right now, even though there is no official Flatpak or AppImage. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Raspbian and don’t want to compile things yourself (which might not even be possible on weak ARM devices), you can e.g. get it with the [Nix package manager](https://nixos.org/):

- Install Nix as described [here](https://nixos.org/guides/install-nix.html). That script will modify `~/.profile` and print instructions for updating your `$PATH` in case you don’t want to log out and log in again.
- Install deltachat-desktop using `nix-env -f '<nixpkgs>' -iA deltachat-desktop`. You should now have `deltachat` in your `$PATH` and hopefully in your launcher.
- Keep it up to date using `nix-channel --update && nix-env -u --always`.

You can also install [KDeltaChat](https://git.sr.ht/~link2xt/kdeltachat) (`-iA kdeltachat`) and [Cursed Delta](https://github.com/adbenitez/deltachat-cursed) (`-iA deltachat-cursed`) that way.

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