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Fugo Player turns your Linux device into a powerful digital signage player, good for kiosks, wall-mounted displays, or back-office dashboards. Whether you're repurposing an old PC or deploying signage at scale, Linux offers a lightweight and stable environment with plenty of customization potential.
This guide will show you how to install and launch the Fugo Player using Snap, a universal package manager supported by most major Linux distributions. No advanced Linux skills required - just follow along step by step.
💡 Why Linux?
Many users choose Linux for digital signage due to its reliability, low overhead, and long-term support. If you’re working with Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, or similar, this guide is for you.
What you’ll need
A computer running a supported Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian, Mint, etc.)
Internet access
A Fugo account - sign up here if you don’t already have one
Fugo player is distributed as a Snap package for easy installation on most modern Linux devices.
Check if Snap is installed
Snap is a universal software packaging system built into Ubuntu and available on most other distros.
1. Open your terminal and check for Snap with:
snap version
If it returns a version number, you're all set!
2. If Snap isn’t installed, install it by running:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Install the Fugo Player app
You can install the Fugo player in one of two ways:
Option 1: Install via Terminal
1. Run the following command:
sudo snap install fugo-player
2. Enter your system password when prompted.
3. The Fugo player will be installed in just a few seconds.
Option 2: Install via the Snap store
1. Open the Snap store on your device.
2. Search for "fugo-player", or go directly to snapcraft.io/fugo-player.
3. Click Install.
Launch the Fugo Player app
After installation, you can launch Fugo Player using one of these methods:
From the terminal
fugo-player
or
snap run fugo-player
From the Snap store
Navigate to the Fugo Player entry and click Open.
From your applications menu
Click “Show Applications” and look for Fugo Player.
You’ll see the Fugo pairing screen appear:
We’ll cover what to do with that in the next section.
Pair your screen with Fugo CMS
1. Log into your Fugo account.
2. Once you're logged in, you can click Create > Screen on the Welcome page.
Alternatively, you can navigate to the Screens page in the top navigation bar and click Create Screens.
3. Enter the pairing code shown on your screen into the space provided.
4. To finish the pairing process, give your screen a name and add a location if you want to be able to find it on Fugo's map view.
Click Add Screen when you're done to wrap up.
With setup complete, your new screen will now be listed on your Screens page, and you’re ready to push content to it from Fugo.
Publish content with Fugo CMS
With your player all set up, you’re ready to give it something to play!
Fugo allows you to display several types of content:
Images
Videos
HTML embeds of your favorite widgets
3rd party integrations from our app store
TV dashboards like Looker, Tableau, Power BI + more
You can use our Design Studio to create screen-ready content like digital posters & menu boards without having to leave Fugo for a 3rd party tool - learn how here.
When your content is ready to go on screen, you can use our friendly playlist builder to publish your content.
💡 Check out our Playlists guide collection for the full scoop on:
Sending your content to the right screen (or screens)
Filling out your playlist with more content items
Configuring the content items in your playlist
Scheduling content for specific days & times
Setting a playlist to expire in advance
Troubleshooting tips
Fugo Player won’t launch?
Restart your system and try again.
Or launch directly from the terminal:
snap run fugo-player
Seeing a black screen or no pairing code?
Make sure you have an active internet connection.
Confirm that Snap permissions are enabled on your system.
Optional: Auto-start Fugo Player on boot
Want your player to start automatically every time the device boots? We can help set that up — reach out to support@fugo.ai and we’ll walk you through it.
Need more help?
Reach out to support@fugo.ai or send us a message in the handy chatbot inside Fugo CMS.
Happy publishing!