Installing GitHub Desktop

You can install GitHub Desktop on supported Windows or macOS operating systems.

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About GitHub Desktop installation

You can install GitHub Desktop on supported operating systems, which currently include macOS 10.15 or later and Windows 10 64-bit or later. If you have a GitHub or GitHub Enterprise account, you can connect your account to GitHub Desktop. For more information about creating an account, see "Creating an account on GitHub."

If you are a network administrator, you can deploy GitHub Desktop to computers running Windows on an Active Directory-managed network by using the Windows Installer package file (.msi) with Group Policy or another remote installation system.

The Windows Installer package extracts the standalone installer (.exe) and configures Windows to install GitHub Desktop the next time a user signs in to their workstation. Users must have permissions to install GitHub Desktop in their user directory.

If a user runs the Windows Installer package for GitHub Desktop directly, to complete the installation, the user must sign out of their workstation and then sign back in.

Downloading and installing GitHub Desktop

You can install GitHub Desktop on macOS 10.15 or later.

  1. Visit the download page for GitHub Desktop.
  2. Click Download for macOS.
  3. In your computer's Downloads folder, double-click the GitHub Desktop zip file.
  4. After the file has been unzipped, double-click the GitHub Desktop application file.
  5. GitHub Desktop will launch after installation is complete.

You can install GitHub Desktop on Windows 10 64-bit or later.

Warning

You must have a 64-bit operating system to run GitHub Desktop.

  1. Visit the download page for GitHub Desktop.
  2. Click Download for Windows.
  3. In your computer's Downloads folder, double-click the GitHub Desktop setup file.
  4. GitHub Desktop will launch after installation is complete.

Linux is not yet supported