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GitHub CLI

lastmod 2026-03-06created 2026-03-061 edits

Install

Debian

These packages are supported by the GitHub CLI maintainers with updates powered by GitHub CLI deployment workflow.

To install:

(type -p wget >/dev/null || (sudo apt update && sudo apt install wget -y)) \
    && sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings \
    && out=$(mktemp) && wget -nv -O$out https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
    && cat $out | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
    && sudo chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
    && sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/sources.list.d \
    && echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null \
    && sudo apt update \
    && sudo apt install gh -y

To upgrade:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh

Quick Start Guide

  1. Install gh.
  2. To authenticate with GitHub, run the gh auth login command in the terminal.

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