Linux: why we recommend the tar.gz bundle?

Dec 16, 2020

linux smartgit

For Linux we are offering since ever a .tar.gz bundle and since a couple of years a .deb bundle.

We recommend the .tar.gz bundle, because

it can be installed simply by unpacking anywhere,
it can autoupdate itself to any newer version, even if the installation directory needs to be updated,
it ships will all dependencies (except of libcurl), including Git and JRE,
workarounds like for outdated GTK3 versions are easier to handle