Linux karaoke software from Auto-KJ is a desktop app, 64-bit PC only. Download the AppImage, the amd64 .deb, or the x86_64 .rpm from pricing. Free version is $0. Full version is ~$10/mo after a 60-day no-card trial.
Karaoke software for Linux is a thin search. Most of the results are either OpenKJ, a Windows program under Wine, or a living-room site that happens to load in Firefox. Auto-KJ’s own answer is a native build you install. The wider product — bring your own library, Fairness Engine, singer phones — is the karaoke software pillar and the karaoke host software page. This page is the Linux file and the machines it does not cover.
Three Linux downloads, one architecture
All three packages are x86_64 / amd64. There is no ARM Linux build, no Raspberry Pi image, and no Flathub listing. If the booth computer is aarch64, these files are the wrong download.
- AppImage. AutoKJ.AppImage. One file, no package manager. Mark it executable and run it. This is the one to grab when you do not want to sort out distro packages before doors.
- .deb (amd64). AutoKJ-amd64.deb. Architecture amd64. It depends on
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0andlibgtk-3-0. Debian and Ubuntu-family machines that can install those two are the fit. - .rpm (x86_64). AutoKJ-x86_64.rpm. Published in the same batch as the AppImage and the .deb, for RPM distros on 64-bit PC hardware.
Same release as Windows and Mac
The Linux packages are built from the same release as the Windows setup and the Mac disk images, and the in-app updater covers the AppImage, the .deb, and the .rpm. A fresh Linux install is a real Auto-KJ desktop app, not a browser session.
That is still the Free version and the Full version. The 60-day trial still starts inside the app, Settings then License Activation, no card. The library still lives in folders on the Linux machine: MP3+G, ZIP, and video karaoke. The Fairness Engine is the same rotation you can bruise in the Rotation Simulator before you install.
Show night on a Linux laptop
Treat it like any other booth computer. Library folder first, lyrics window on the TV output, rotation screen if you have the pixels. Free version is desk-entered: you type the names, you get dual screen, Break-Wave between singers, and no singer phones. The printable sign-up sheet is the paper version of that desk. Full version adds cloud singer phones in the phone’s browser, a kiosk, a phone remote, and LAN failover when the venue network quits. The music stays local either way. Phones never become the player.
Full version is ~$10/mo for one live show at a time. Extra simultaneous shows are +$5/mo. Lifetime is $500. Ghost-Trax credits are $2, on ghost-trax.com, on every tier. The cases singers argue about — duets, late arrivals, no-shows — are written up in the Fairness Engine guide and the rotation rules. Dead venue Wi-Fi is its own guide. None of that is a Windows-only feature that Linux is missing.
OpenKJ on the same Linux machine
A lot of people land here from OpenKJ, which already runs well on Linux. Two different downloads, on purpose. Auto-KJ’s Linux packages are the files above. The community OpenKJ fork is a separate project with its own Windows, Mac, and Linux builds, linked from the OpenKJ alternative page. Staying on OpenKJ and adding songbook hosting is $5/mo, or $50/year. That songbook does not unlock the Auto-KJ desktop app. It is included if you move to the Full version (~$10/mo) or Lifetime ($500).
If you do switch, the migration walkthrough is the half-hour path: same idea of a local library, a different host app, phone requests without standing up OpenKJ’s request server yourself. If you are comparing catalog rental instead, KaraFun Pro is the other job. If you are comparing a Windows-only BYO app, that is Siglos. Both sit on the compare index.