GitHub Desktop - The Linux Fork

GitHub Desktop is an open source Electron-based GitHub app. It is written in TypeScript and uses React.

What is this repository for?

This repository contains specific patches on top of the upstream desktop/desktop repository to support Linux usage.

It also hosts preview packages for various Linux distributions:

• AppImage (.AppImage)
• Debian (.deb)
• RPM (.rpm)

Check out the latest releases to help out with testing on your distribution.

packagecloud

We use PackageCloud for distributing the installers for Debian and RPM-based distributions. These are not free services, so if you can afford to help with these costs please Sponsor the project using the link in the header.

Debian/Ubuntu distributions

To setup the package repository, run these commands:

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

Then install GitHub Desktop:

$ sudo apt install github-desktop

Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora distributions

To setup the package repository, run these commands:

$ sudo rpm --import https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/gpgkey
$ sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[shiftkey]\nname=GitHub Desktop\nbaseurl=https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/el/7/\$basearch\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=0\nrepo_gpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/gpgkey" > /etc/yum.repos.d/shiftkey-desktop.repo'

Then install GitHub Desktop:

# if yum is your package manager
$ sudo yum install github-desktop

# if dnf is your package manager
$ sudo dnf install github-desktop

Other Distributions

Arch Linux users can install GitHub Desktop from the AUR.

gnome-keyring is required and the daemon must be launched either at login or when the X server is started. Normally this is handled by a display manager, but in other cases following the instructions found on the Arch Wiki will fix the issue of not being able to save login credentials.

More information

Please check out the README on the upstream GitHub Desktop project and desktop.github.com for more product-oriented information about GitHub Desktop.

License

MIT

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