gah is an GitHub Releases app installer, that DOES NOT REQUIRE SUDO! It is a simple bash script that downloads the latest release of an app from GitHub and installs it in ~/.local/bin. It is designed to be used with apps that are distributed as a single binary file.

Features:

• Downloads the latest or given release of an app from GitHub

• Automatically selects matching binary for the current platform

  • Supported OS: Linux and MacOS
  • Supported architectures: x64 and ARM64

• Supports multiple matching apps in a single GitHub Release

• Supports archived (.zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz) and single binary releases

• Has own base of predefined aliases for GitHub repositories (PRs are welcome!)

Installation

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marverix/gah/refs/heads/master/tools/install.sh)"

Usage

Type gah help to see the list of available commands.

gah
  install <github_owner/github_repo_name | known_alias> [<git_tag>]
  show <aliases>
  help
  version

Examples

Install latest version of gh (GitHub CLI)

gah install gh

Install specific version of argocd

gah install argocd v2.0.3

Install an app that is not in the predefined aliases

gah install hashicorp/vagrant

License

gah is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. See LICENSE for the full license text.