How to Install Turtle on Ubuntu

Oct 2, 2024

If you use Ubuntu like I do and have many repositories, it can sometimes be challenging to organize your projects in Git with software like GitHub Desktop, Visual Studio Code, or WebStorm. Often, you may need to use different tools for various projects. Additionally, it’s nice to use a tool that feels native to your operating system. For this reason, I started using Turtle.

Turtle is a GUI Git client that you can use directly within your files.

How to Install Turtle

For Ubuntu 24.04, a PPA is available:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philippun/turtle
sudo apt update
sudo apt install turtle-cli turtle-nautilus

You should also install the following dependencies:

sudo apt install python3-pygit2 python3-gi-cairo python3-secretstorage python3-nautilus meld

And that’s it! I hope you find this tool helpful!