FROM ubuntu:24.04
ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
# Match the host user so files written to mounted volumes keep the right owner.
ARG USER_NAME=re
ARG USER_UID=1000
ARG USER_GID=1000
# Fingerprint of Anthropic's apt signing key, from the official install docs:
# https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-linux
ARG ANTHROPIC_APT_FPR=31DDDE24DDFAB679F42D7BD2BAA929FF1A7ECACE
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates curl gnupg \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Add Anthropic's apt repository and refuse to continue if the key is wrong.
RUN curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc \
https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-desktop/key.asc \
&& gpg --show-keys --with-colons /usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc \
| grep -q "^fpr:::::::::${ANTHROPIC_APT_FPR}:" \
&& echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/claude-desktop-archive-keyring.asc] https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-desktop/apt/stable stable main" \
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/claude-desktop.list
# Recommends are skipped: they pull in QEMU/OVMF for Cowork, which needs KVM
# and isn't useful in this container. No keyring is installed: sign-in is not
# kept between runs. x11-utils provides the display check tools.
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
claude-desktop \
x11-utils \
xauth \
fonts-dejavu-core \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Ghidra from the official GitHub release, checked against the SHA-256 in the
# release notes: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases
# Ghidra 12.2 needs JDK 25 (application.java.min=25). The full JDK, not the
# headless one, because Ghidra's GUI needs the AWT/X11 libraries.
ARG GHIDRA_VERSION=12.2
ARG GHIDRA_BUILD_DATE=20261016
ARG GHIDRA_SHA256=2c2cd776db3c1f6a097ba418922378ac3649cadd5e844a6f5f088ae628a7be67
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openjdk-25-jdk unzip \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
&& curl -fsSLo /tmp/ghidra.zip \
"https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/download/Ghidra_${GHIDRA_VERSION}_build/ghidra_${GHIDRA_VERSION}_PUBLIC_${GHIDRA_BUILD_DATE}.zip" \
&& echo "${GHIDRA_SHA256} /tmp/ghidra.zip" | sha256sum -c - \
&& unzip -q /tmp/ghidra.zip -d /opt \
&& rm /tmp/ghidra.zip \
&& ln -s "/opt/ghidra_${GHIDRA_VERSION}_PUBLIC" /opt/ghidra \
&& ln -s /opt/ghidra/ghidraRun /usr/local/bin/ghidra
ENV GHIDRA_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/ghidra
# Enable the "Developer" plugin package (File > Configure > Developer) in the
# CodeBrowser. Ghidra copies its default tools into the user's settings on
# first start, and settings are reset on every container start, so the
# default CodeBrowser.tool inside the jar is patched instead of user config.
# The build fails if the line could not be inserted.
RUN set -e; cd /tmp \
&& jar_file=/opt/ghidra/Ghidra/Configurations/Public_Release/lib/Public_Release.jar \
&& unzip -q "$jar_file" defaultTools/CodeBrowser.tool \
&& sed -i '0,/\n ' defaultTools/CodeBrowser.tool \
&& jar uf "$jar_file" defaultTools/CodeBrowser.tool \
&& rm -r /tmp/defaultTools
# Ubuntu 24.04 ships a default "ubuntu" user on UID 1000; replace it.
RUN if id ubuntu >/dev/null 2>&1; then userdel -r ubuntu; fi \
&& groupadd -g "${USER_GID}" "${USER_NAME}" \
&& useradd -m -u "${USER_UID}" -g "${USER_GID}" -s /bin/bash "${USER_NAME}" \
&& install -d -o "${USER_UID}" -g "${USER_GID}" /workspace \
&& ln -s /workspace "/home/${USER_NAME}/workspace"
COPY --chmod=755 launch-apps.sh /usr/local/bin/launch-apps
USER ${USER_NAME}
WORKDIR /home/${USER_NAME}
# launch-apps starts Claude Desktop and Ghidra and stops both (and so the
# container) when either one is closed.
# No keyring: tell Electron not to look for one. Session data lives only in
# the container's filesystem, which is discarded on exit (run with --rm), so
# the user signs in on every start.
# --no-sandbox: Docker's default seccomp profile blocks the namespaces
# Chromium's sandbox needs, so the zygote dies on start. The container's own
# seccomp/namespaces stay in place as the boundary to the host instead.
CMD ["launch-apps", "--password-store=basic", "--no-sandbox"]