Does GitHub desktop work on Ubuntu?

Hello friends 👋, if you are also a ubuntu and i linux user and you want to install github desktop in your computer or laptop then read this article carefully and do further process 🙏 and after you do this process successfully, then give you your feedback on this article. In the comments section 😊😀😀

So guys yet not officially launched Github desktop for ubuntu or any other Linux OS distribution.

so today we will install one version of this Github Desktop’s development and hope 🤗 soon it will be fully officially launches 🎉🎉

Here’s a short and quick tutorial on How to install Github Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 linux Distribution via CLI [Terminal] 👩‍💻

Step : 1

For installation of Github Desktop, first, we have to download the package 📦 from GitHub.com/shiftkey repo by copying the following command 👇👇👇

sudo wget //github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-2.9.0-linux2/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux2.deb Get GitHub Desktop .deb package 📦 via wget

Pest copied command in the terminal by pressing Shift+insert key and hit Enter ↩️

Enter your user password and again hit enter ↩️

Now you’re the Github Desktop is Downloaded in your computer 💻

If you don’t have gdebi installed on your computer laptop 💻 then install via coping the command and hit 👊 enter ↩️

sudo apt-get install gdebi-core Installation of the gdebi

Now, Update your System

So guys this step is the most important and final step 🚶 then don’t forget to copy this command

After installing gdebi, using gdebi install the GitHubDesktop client using the following command.

sudo gdebi GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux2.deb Installation step 4️⃣

Yup, We did it 🎉🎉🎉🚀🚀

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GitHub Desktop is a free open source GitHub.com app. It is Electron based and written in TypeScript and uses React. There is no official Linux installer from GitHub and it only provides Windows and MacOS installers. But you can install GitHub Desktop on various Linux distributions from GitHub Desktop fork shiftkey/desktop. In this this article we will see how to install GitHub Desktop on Ubuntu Linux

Install GitHub Desktop on Ubuntu

Open the terminal command-line application [ctrl+alt+t] and run below commands one by one. It will install the latest version of GitHub Desktop on your system.

wget -qO - //packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/gpgkey | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/shiftkey-desktop.asc > /dev/null sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] //packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/any/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packagecloud-shiftky-desktop.list' sudo apt-get update sudo apt install github-desktop github-desktop

Install GitHub Desktop via DEB:

Download GitHub Desktop

You can also install GitHub Desktop via the native deb package file on Ubuntu. Download GitHub Desktop in .deb file format from the above download page and save it on your Downloads folder. Here the downloaded file name is “GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux4.deb”. You can change below commands based on your downloaded file name. Open the terminal run below commands one by one.

cd Downloads sudo dpkg -i GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux4.deb sudo apt install -f

[OR]

sudo apt install ./Downloads/GitHubDesktop-linux*.deb

Install GitHub Desktop via AppImage:

It is also available via the portable AppImage file format. Download GitHub Desktop in .AppImage file format from the below download link and save it on your Downloads folder.

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Download GitHub Desktop

Open the terminal app and run below command one by one.

cd Downloads sudo chmod +x ~ GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux4.AppImage

Here “GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux4.AppImage” is the downloaded file name . you can change below commands based on your file name.

./GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.0-linux4.AppImage

Install GitHub Desktop via Flatpak:

Install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it. After that open terminal app and run below GitHub Desktop flatpak installation command.

flatpak install flathub io.github.shiftey.Desktop

You can oprn GitHub Desktop via

flatpak run io.github.shiftey.Desktop

That’s it.