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Discussion on: Is GitHub Desktop available for GNU/Linux?

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samar ranjan nayak

Getting below error while installing the .rpm package.
[samar@samar Downloads]$ sudo rpm -i GitHubDesktop-linux-2.9.4-linux1.rpm
[sudo] password for samar:
error: Failed dependencies:
(kde-cli-tools or kde-cli-tools5 or kde-runtime or trash-cli or glib2 or gvfs-client) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64
(libXtst or libXtst6) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64
(libcurl or libcurl4) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64
(libnotify or libnotify4) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64
(libxcb or libxcb1) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64
(mesa-libgbm or libgbm1) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64
(nss or mozilla-nss) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64
rpmlib(RichDependencies) <= 4.12.0-1 is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64

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Mir Rahed Uddin

Probably your system is out of date so, check if there are any updates available. or you can install dependencies separately. Suppose you are getting "(libXtst) is needed by github-desktop-2.9.4.linux1-1.x86_64" message. So you install libXtst by running the following command sudo rpm -i libXtst. Repeat this process until all of your dependency issues are resolved then run the GitHub-desktop installer again.