There are three steps to success with GitKraken Desktop. That’s it!
- Download GitKraken Desktop
- Install GitKraken Desktop
- Use GitKraken Desktop
No Git tools are required for GitKraken Desktop, so once you’ve run the installer, you can open the app and get going.
If you want to utilize additional features such as the terminal or LFS, download git-scm .
Below are platform-specific instructions and details on minimum requirements.
Looking for GitKraken On-Premise Self-Hosted installation instructions? Then please start in with our On-Premise System Requirements page.
Windows (.exe file)
- System requirements: Windows 10+
Install Instructions
Double-click the downloaded executable file. You will see a splash screen while GitKraken Desktop is insalled, and then the application will automatically start.
Windows Data Location
GitKraken Desktop data is stored with your home profile in C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming
in the .gitkraken
folder.
Mac OS (.dmg file)
- System requirements:
- Intel: macOS 10.15+
- Apple Silicon: macOS 11+
- Download
Install Instructions
Double click the downloaded DMG file and when prompted, drag and drop the GitKraken icon to your Applications folder.
Mac OS Data Location
GitKraken Desktop data is stored in /Users/{user}/.gitkraken
== ~/.gitkraken
.
Linux (.deb, .rpm, and .tar.gz files)
- .deb system requirements: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or later
- .rpm system requirements: RHEL 7+, CentOS 7+, or Fedora 34+
Note 📝 – GitKraken Desktop currently supports Ubuntu 18.04 LTS+, RHEL 7+, CentOS 7+, and Fedora 34+. While GitKraken Desktop may be able to be installed on other Linux distributions, we cannot guarantee that it will work as expected.
.deb
GitKraken Desktop has a simple package available for Debian based distributions.
wget https://release.gitkraken.com/linux/gitkraken-amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./gitkraken-amd64.deb
.tar
wget https://release.gitkraken.com/linux/gitkraken-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf gitkraken-amd64.tar.gz
.rpm
wget https://release.gitkraken.com/linux/gitkraken-amd64.rpm
sudo dnf install ./gitkraken-amd64.rpm
Note: for older distros that do not have dnf
, you should use yum
instead.
Snap
Snap is an easy-to-install package for Linux distributions (supported versions above). Get it from the snap store or Snapcraft.io.
Linux Data Location
GitKraken Desktop data is stored in /home/{user}/.gitkraken
== ~/.gitkraken
.
WSL
If you’re attempting to use GitKraken Desktop within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), visit our page on How to use GitKraken Desktop with WSL for additional details.
Run GitKraken Desktop
Upon installation, some Linux distros do not automatically create shortcuts to the app.
To run GitKraken Desktop manually, open the terminal and type gitkraken
to start the app.