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📲 apt install zapfast

A fast, lightweight native WhatsApp client for the desktop, written in Rust

⚡ The short answer. On a stock system apt install zapfast fails outright, ZapFast is not in the official Debian or Ubuntu archives at all. Add the deb.griffo.io repository below and sudo apt install zapfast gives you the current release on Debian and Ubuntu alike, currently zapfast 0.21.0 (updated 2026-11-02).

📦 Add the repository, then apt install zapfast

Step 1: Add repository & key

Run the commands
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb.griffo.io/apt $(. /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb.griffo.io/apt $(. /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
apt update
sudo apt install extrepo
sudo extrepo enable griffo
sudo apt update

🆓 There is an always-free mirror. deb-free.griffo.io serves packages free forever, no account, no subscription, at most 2 months behind upstream, security fixes immediately. It currently carries cliamp, Ghostty, lazydocker, Oh My Posh, Uncloud and Zed; ZapFast is not one of them, so the repository above is the only way to get it today, ask and it can be enrolled.

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🧩 About the extrepo option. extrepo is Debian's own tool for external repositories: it writes the sources file and installs the signing key for you, checking the key against signed metadata first. This repository is registered with it as griffo, and the always-free mirror as griffo-free, so on Debian (bookworm, trixie, forky and sid) the commands above are the whole setup.

extrepo sets up the sources file and the key only, so a subscription's credentials still go in /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/deb.griffo.io.conf. Ubuntu is not covered, because extrepo publishes metadata for Debian suites only: there, use the sudo or root commands.

Step 2: apt install zapfast

sudo apt install -y zapfast
apt install -y zapfast

🔄 How to apt install the latest ZapFast

Once the repository is added there is no separate "install latest" command, apt already resolves to the newest version this repository serves, and that is rebuilt within hours of every upstream ZapFast release. To move an existing install up to the latest version:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade zapfast
apt update && apt install --only-upgrade zapfast

Or upgrade everything on the machine at once with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. To see which version you would get before installing, run apt policy zapfast.

📋 ZapFast versions available right now

Debian

Debian releaseSuiteZapFast version
Debian 12 “Bookworm”
also LMDE 6, Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm), Proxmox VE 8		bookworm0.21.0-1~griffo
Debian 13 “Trixie”
also LMDE 7, Raspberry Pi OS, Proxmox VE 9		trixie0.21.0-1~griffo
Debian 14 “Forky”forky0.21.0-1~griffo
Debian Sidsid0.21.0-1~griffo

Ubuntu

Ubuntu releaseSuiteZapFast version
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat”
also Linux Mint 22, Pop!_OS 24.04, Zorin OS 18, elementary OS 8, KDE neon		noble0.21.0-1~griffo
Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”questing0.21.0-1~griffo
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute”resolute0.21.0-1~griffo

❓ Common questions

Does apt-get install zapfast work too?

Yes. apt and apt-get read the same sources, so sudo apt-get install zapfast is equivalent. apt is the friendlier front-end; apt-get is the stable one to prefer inside scripts.

Why doesn't apt install zapfast work out of the box?

ZapFast is not packaged in the official Debian or Ubuntu archives, so a stock system has nothing to install and apt install zapfast fails with "Unable to locate package". Adding this repository gives apt a source that carries ZapFast and keeps it current.

Which Debian and Ubuntu releases are supported?

Every currently supported release listed in the table above. The setup command reads the suite from /etc/os-release on the machine you run it on, so the same three lines work everywhere, including derivatives such as Linux Mint, LMDE, Pop!_OS and Raspberry Pi OS, which get the Debian or Ubuntu release they are built on.

Is this repository trustworthy?

It's an unofficial repository maintained by Dario Griffo. Packages are built automatically from official upstream ZapFast releases, the packaging is open source at dariogriffo/zapfast-debian, and the whole archive is GPG-signed. Several upstream projects link to it from their official installation docs.

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