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I unwittingly updated Gitkraken from 5.0.4 on my Linux machine. Just like this dude, I was in for a nasty surprise: the newer Gitkraken is not free for individual use.

After spend much time looking around, I could only find this old Linux installation file gitkraken-5.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz here. It does not have .configure file. Thus, I could not do anything with it. Did anyone managed to get it working? This could help others who fall for the update trap from Axosoft.

I managed to find the old .deb file and got it back to working order. Did anyone manage to a copy online somewhere? I am afraid to accidentally lose the local copy.

J. Doe
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First, download the old version. After a while of searching I found it at this archive, but your source seems to be the same:

wget http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/pub/ftp/os/Linux/distr/antergos/antergos/x86_64/gitkraken-5.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Unzip it and move the content of /opt into your /opt folder and do the same with the /usr folder respectively.

Last, you need to install a dependency:

apt update && apt install gconf2

Note: works for me on Kali 2020.3 (which depends on Debian 9.3.0)

TheClockTwister
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    Thanks! I found the old deb somewhere. It's like gold now. – J. Doe Sep 11 '20 at 07:26
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    You need the Windows version of 5.0.4 too? If so: you simply need to add a firewall rule to block the Update.exe from phoning home to the update servers. After that, the version will stay at 5.0.4 and all features remain free :) The old Windows version can be found much faster than the Linux one, shouldn't be a problem to get it somewhere... – TheClockTwister Sep 11 '20 at 11:43
  • Hi there, where can I find a usable Windows version of GKK? – J. Doe Oct 13 '20 at 14:03
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    Here you have an overview over nearly all versions: https://gitkraken.software.informer.com/versions/ https://gitkraken.software.informer.com/download/ There you can find the version you need :) – TheClockTwister Oct 13 '20 at 14:07
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[Update]

Since I came across this question so many times in the past to get my V-5.0.4, I thought this could be helpful to others as a heads up, since I found myself stuck on this for a couple of hours thinking it was a problem on my side;

From February 28th 2023, versions 6.6.0 and older ceased to function as announced in January 20th, 2023. More details here.

This doesn't affect the installation itself, but you will just find yourself facing a not-working login dialog that blocks the entire window.

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