Help installing Roon Server on clean ubuntu 24.04

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Yes but with Linux you would have to run the Roon GUI app in WINE. See this and many other threads (the forum search is your friend):

Roon control GUI working on Linux using Wine

Sorry to necropost. I also have this requirement, but I have Roon control working on Linux using Wine. The key is to create a unique Wine instance just for Roon. Create the Wine instance, I create a 32 bit instance, I can no longer recall why but haven’t changed it as it works (note WinRoon is the directory name I choose, its not overly important) env WINEPREFIX=/home/alan/WinRoon WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot Set the Window version to Win7 env WINEPREFIX=/home/alan/WinRoon winecfg Instal…

And it may happen even in the best case that the CPU load is quite high.

Alternatively, you may want to use this community solution:

Community Remote for Linux, first native Linux GUI (v0.0.9)

I have something for all Linux users within the Roon Community that like to have a GUI that provides quick access to your Roon system. It is called Community Remote and it is developed in Flutter to also allow support for other platforms (only Linux and Android at the moment). As there are a lot of distributions and package formats for Linux, I choose to pick one universal one, being Flatpak. You can read about Flatpak installation for your distribution here. As a counter part to Flatpak there…

As a side note, the documentation does say that there is no GUI app for Linux:

Roon Hardware Specification Recommendations

If you want to persevere with Linux, you will have to read many things, so I can only recommend to get used to reading documentation and being patient while you figure things out.