SmartGit can easily be configured to run on ARM64/AArch64 based Linux systems:

Prerequisites

Git

Ensure Git and Git LFS are installed on your system (sudo apt install git git-lfs). git version should show 2.50.1.

Steps

  1. Download and extract the SmartGit .tar.gz archive from smartgit.dev to your preferred installation directory.

  2. Remove the jre/ and git/ directories from the SmartGit installation directory

  3. Unpack the AArch64 OpenJDK:
    • download the AArch64 / ARM64 tar.gz-bundle of, e.g., Microsoft OpenJDK
    • unpack it as jre/ directory inside the SmartGit installation directory

  4. launch bin/smartgit.sh

  5. Create a startmenu item (optionally): execute bin/add-menuitem.sh

Summary

The installation has been tested and verified on:

  • Raspberry Pi 5 with Ubuntu 25.10
  • Ubuntu 24.04 running in Parallels on Apple M2 Pro Mac

While the procedure should work on other Linux/Debian/Ubuntu versions, compatibility has only been verified with the configurations listed above.