See the following links for further updates to Github Desktop for Ubuntu. These are official instructions. (also mentioned by fetwar on Nov 3, 2023)
For the sake of "maintaining the tradition" here is the updated version.
# UPDATE (2024-01-24)
## Direct copy-paste from official instrubtions
## Github Desktop for Ubuntu
## Get the @shiftkey package feed
wget -qO - https://apt.packages.shiftkey.dev/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/shiftkey-packages.gpg > /dev/null
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/shiftkey-packages.gpg] https://apt.packages.shiftkey.dev/ubuntu/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/shiftkey-packages.list'
## Install Github Desktop for Ubuntu
sudo apt update && sudo apt install github-desktop
There are other methods mentioned in the comments. Many thanks to their contributions.
- Meliyio commented on Dec 9, 2023
- phanect commented on Nov 19, 2023
- rakkarage commented on Nov 17, 2023
# UPDATE (2022-11-07): Thanks to Sxvxgee's message, the updated code is as follows
sudo wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-3.1.1-linux1/GitHubDesktop-linux-3.1.1-linux1.deb
### Uncomment below line if you have not installed gdebi-core before
# sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
sudo gdebi GitHubDesktop-linux-3.1.1-linux1.deb
# UPDATE (2021-10-18): Thanks to Amin Yahyaabadi's message, the updated code is as follows
#sudo wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-2.9.3-linux3/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.3-linux3.deb
### Uncomment below line if you have not installed gdebi-core before
# sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
#sudo gdebi GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.3-linux3.deb
# UPDATE (2021-03-05): Thanks to PaoloRanzi81's comment, the updated code is as follows https://gist.github.com/PaoloRanzi81
#sudo wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-2.6.3-linux1/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.6.3-linux1.deb
### Uncomment below line if you have not installed gdebi-core before
# sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
#sudo gdebi GitHubDesktop-linux-2.6.3-linux1.deb
## Initial post
#sudo wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-2.1.0-linux1/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.1.0-linux1.deb
#sudo gdebi GitHubDesktop-linux-2.1.0-linux1.deb
Somehow the GUI can only display changes and commit but cannot fetch/pull/push
I can do ssh command line based on ssh-agent etc. per Github ssh pages. And my github gui is login (and logout and login ok just in case). Not sure what is the problem. (Have run in another ubuntu and it is fine. There must be one more step I missed and it is not in here!)
Any help please.
I finally resolve it by not doing any git or gh in command line (to avoid ssh) but sync via the GUI. And also move my organization as this GUI seem cannot sync other than the original user.
May be somehow there could be token access (not finding it in GUI) or somehow start the ssh agent before the GUI start. But I just use the shortcut to do my work.