To install Github Desktop for Ubuntu

github_desktop_ubuntu.md

IMPORTANT

See the following links for further updates to Github Desktop for Ubuntu. These are official instructions. (also mentioned by fetwar on Nov 3, 2023)

• How to Install
• Latest Releases

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

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# 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

Danke from Tennessee. Im old and learning. Can you show the complete script to uninstall. I don't understand what to append -m uninstall to. I want to keep it but you never know. Also why does poster say it can only add, I see other commands... Bitte

Hello @goldboolean,

you can achieve this by supplying the argument at the end of the command, e.g.
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kontr0x/github-desktop-install/main/installGitHubDesktop.sh)" "" --help

or in your case

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kontr0x/github-desktop-install/main/installGitHubDesktop.sh)" "" -m uninstall

Many greetings to Tennessee

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Obrigado !

Cool. It works!

Works great! Thnak you for providing.

sudo dpkg -i GitHubDesktop-linux-3.1.1-linux1.deb

Buts GitHub desktop for ubuntu is not supporting the private repo and organization repo.

These are pro features on Github.

no, these are no longer pro features on github

trying to install github-desktop in Ubuntu, using shiftkey, as described above.
I get: Could not connect to apt.packages.shiftkey.dev:80 (20.15.126.193), connection timed out

network is fine, shiftkey packages wget ok.

any suggestions?

Everything seems to work used this in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04, but I do see this error message.

`Unknown or unsupported transport "disabled" for address "disabled:"

Thank you so much, It's working

So easy, so nice! Thank you :)

yo cool, I thank you for supporting the Linux side of Github since microsoft cant give it to us!

Team, I'm getting this error suddenly, I tried restarting my VM as well. Can anyone help please?

@Naren1997 This is not an official thread. I recommend to ask in the following official repo:

https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop

I suspect your HTTPS certificates are out of date. Did you update your system packages with e.g. apt upgrade or dnf update?

It still works. Thanks !!

Still doesn`t work 😮‍💨

Still doesn`t work 😮‍💨

git config --global core.compression 0

@pgmtags I think you should elaborate on what your problem is and how it is related to GitHub Desktop for Linux (Looks like you are just using Git), but I guess you should not prepend sudo. It should make the problem much more complex.
I also recommend removing the existing local Git repositories and cloning again to avoid permission-related problems.

Thank you, it works!!!!

tyvm, it works!

I love you, bro! Thankssss

bad cert?

https://apt.packages.shiftkey.dev/gpg.key

IS this safe????????

Authentication on the GitHub side works but when I return to the browswer I get this

I am on Kubuntu 24.10 and using Firefox for the auth

Thanks

Hello, I hope you are doing well! I managed to install github desktop without using gpg. I used gdebi and installed an older version. However, I can't log into my github account. Is that normal since github desktop isn't officially supported on linux? Or is it because I am using an old version of it?

Não funciona