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!)

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

Type gah help to see the list of available commands.

gah
  install <github_owner/github_repo_name | known_alias> [--tag=<git_tag>] [--use-default-names]
  aliases <show | refresh>
  help
  version

gah has a predefined set of aliases for some popular apps. You can use these aliases to install the apps without specifying the full GitHub repository name. To see the list of available aliases, type gah aliases show.

The file db.json with aliases is located in db branch. Feel free to add your own aliases or suggest new ones by creating a pull request.

The file is cached locally for 24h.

You can specify the tag of the release you want to install. If you don't specify a tag, the latest release will be installed.

gah install getsops/sops --tag=v3.10.2

gah will try to detect if your terminal supports input or not. To force this behavior you can either use the --unattended flag or set env var UNATTENDED=true. This will skip the confirmation prompt and install the app without asking for any input.

gah install getsops/sops --unattended

or

export UNATTENDED=true
gah install getsops/sops

gah update

gah install gh

gah install argocd v2.0.3

gah install hashicorp/vagrant

Here is the list of supported environment variables:

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