Quick Tip: Install hub for GitHub on Ubuntu

Yesterday I was automating updates between GitHub repos via CI, and I wanted to automatically open a PR against a repo. GitHub’s hub CLI is the perfect, obvious candidate. But how do you easily install it in Ubuntu?

A long “one-liner” to download and install a specific version of hub as a pre-compiled binary:

curl -Ls https://github.com/github/hub/releases/download/v2.11.1/hub-linux-amd64-2.11.1.tgz | sudo tar -xvz -C /usr/bin --strip-components=2 hub-linux-amd64-2.11.1/bin/hub && sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/hub

If you don’t mind running a development version, and you have go installed, you can just run

go get github.com/github/hub

But you’ll need to add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH to easily use it.