Running Github Desktop on Ubuntu

Github Desktop is the best Git respository client out there. The official distributions are available for both Windows and MacOS. Unfortunately there is no official distribution is available for Linux/Ubuntu.

Luckily there is an unofficial distribution available which allows us to install and run the Github Desktop software on Linux/Ubuntu. Just run the below commands in order to install the Github Desktop on Ubuntu via Terminal

wget -qO - https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
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
sudo apt install github-desktop

Enjoy the Github Desktop!