WineHQ + GitHub Desktop on Ubuntu?

Solution 1:

As a workaround USE THE PREVIOUS VERSION:

To install the previous version (which works and tested bionic ubuntu 18.04 LTS/19.10 eoan/20.04 focal) remove the version you tried to install then do the below (from terminal):

Updated July 2021 for github desktop 2.6.

sudo wget https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases/download/release-2.6.3-linux1/GitHubDesktop-linux-2.6.3-linux1.deb
### Uncomment below line if you have not installed gdebi-core before
# sudo apt-get install gdebi-core 
sudo gdebi GitHubDesktop-linux-2.6.3-linux1.deb