Stand-Alone
GitKraken Stand-Alone is built for teams of 10+ who work in a disconnected development environment. You get all the same core GitKraken features, along with these additional benefits:
- For use without internet
- No account creation required
- No server installation
Looking to get started with GitKraken Stand-Alone? Email sales@gitkraken.com for a free trial key.
How to install GitKraken Stand-Alone
There are 3 steps to installing GitKraken Stand-Alone:
- Download GitKraken Stand-Alone
- Install GitKraken
- Load
.dat
license file
1. Download GitKraken Stand-Alone
The GitKraken Stand-Alone clients are available on our downloads page.
If you are unable to access this page, please contact your GitKraken administrator for Stand-Alone client downloads. There is a high probability they have made the files available in a different, internal location.
2. Install GitKraken Stand-Alone
Once you download the client, double click the file to install GitKraken Stand-Alone on your machine.
Below are platform-specific details on minimum requirements.
Windows (.exe file)
- System requirements: Windows 8 or later
Install Instructions
Double-click the downloaded executable file, and follow the installation instructions.
Data Location
GitKraken data is stored within your home profile in C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming
or %APPDATA%/.gitkraken
on older versions. No data is stored outside of the user's machine or remote services (GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, etc).
Mac OS (.dmg file)
- System requirements: Mac OS X 10.9+ (up to and including OS X El Capitan) / macOS Sierra or later
Install Instructions
Double click the downloaded DMG file and when prompted, drag and drop the GitKraken icon to your Applications folder.
Data Location
GitKraken data is stored in /Users/{user}/.gitkraken
== ~/.gitkraken
. No data is stored outside of user's machine or remote services (GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, etc).
Linux (.deb and .tar.gz files)
- System requirements: Ubuntu 14.04 or later
.deb
GitKraken has a simple package available for Debian based distributions.
wget https://release.gitkraken.com/linux-standalone/gitkraken-amd64.deb
dpkg -i gitkraken-amd64.deb
.tar
wget https://release.gitkraken.com/linux-standalone/gitkraken-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf gitkraken-amd64.tar.gz
Data Location
GitKraken data is stored in /home/{user}/.gitkraken
== ~/.gitkraken
. No data is stored outside of user's machine or remote services (GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, etc).
3. Load license file
When you first open GitKraken Stand-Alone, you will be prompted to load the .dat
license file.
If do not have the license, please contact your GitKraken administrator. If you are the GitKraken administrator, please contact sales@gitkraken.com for the license file associated with your purchase.
Once the license file is applied, you are ready to get crackin'!
License.dat Location
You can also place your license file directly into certain directory locations for GitKraken to check. Here are all of the locations GitKraken will look:
Linux/Mac:
-
/usr/local/share/gitkraken
-
/usr/share/gitkraken
-
directory above the
exe
-
directory of the
exe
-
~/.gitkraken
Windows:
-
C:\ProgramData\GitKraken
-
directory above the
exe
-
directory of the
exe
-
%APPDATA%\.gitkraken