diff --git a/linux b/linux
index e310b15ef..f76b2b72e 100644
--- a/linux
+++ b/linux
@@ -178,19 +178,20 @@ fancy_echo "Installing the heroku-config plugin to pull config variables locally
   heroku plugins:install git://github.com/ddollar/heroku-config.git
 ### end linux-components/heroku
 
-# fancy_echo "Installing GitHub CLI client ..."
+fancy_echo "Installing GitHub CLI client ..."
   version="$(curl https://github.com/jingweno/gh/releases/latest -s | cut -d'v' -f2 | cut -d'"' -f1)"
 
-  if uname -m | grep -Fq "x86_64"; then
-    arch="amd64"
+  if uname -m | grep -Fq 'x86_64'; then
+    arch='amd64'
   else
-    arch="i386"
+    arch='i386'
   fi
 
+  cd /tmp
   url="https://github.com/jingweno/gh/releases/download/v${version}/gh_${version}_${arch}.deb"
-  curl "$url" -sLo ~/.bin/gh.deb
-  sudo dpkg -i ~/.bin/gh.deb
-  chmod +x ~/.bin/gh
+  curl "$url" -sLo gh.deb
+  sudo dpkg -i gh.deb
+  cd -
 ### end linux-components/github
 
 fancy_echo "Installing rcm, to manage your dotfiles ..."
diff --git a/linux-components/github b/linux-components/github
index 6f82af67b..55d8fe86c 100644
--- a/linux-components/github
+++ b/linux-components/github
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-# fancy_echo "Installing GitHub CLI client ..."
+fancy_echo "Installing GitHub CLI client ..."
   version="$(curl https://github.com/jingweno/gh/releases/latest -s | cut -d'v' -f2 | cut -d'"' -f1)"
 
-  if uname -m | grep -Fq "x86_64"; then
-    arch="amd64"
+  if uname -m | grep -Fq 'x86_64'; then
+    arch='amd64'
   else
-    arch="i386"
+    arch='i386'
   fi
 
+  cd /tmp
   url="https://github.com/jingweno/gh/releases/download/v${version}/gh_${version}_${arch}.deb"
-  curl "$url" -sLo ~/.bin/gh.deb
-  sudo dpkg -i ~/.bin/gh.deb
-  chmod +x ~/.bin/gh
+  curl "$url" -sLo gh.deb
+  sudo dpkg -i gh.deb
+  cd -