Software installed on GitHub-hosted runners

This article links to references for the packages and tools available in GitHub-hosted virtual environments.

GitHub Actions is available with GitHub Free, GitHub Pro, GitHub Free for organizations, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub One. GitHub Actions is not available for private repositories owned by accounts using legacy per-repository plans. For more information, see "GitHub's products."

The tools included in GitHub-hosted runners are updated weekly. For the latest list of included tools for each runner operating system, see the links below:

Note: The Ubuntu 20.04 virtual environment is currently provided as a preview only. The ubuntu-latest YAML workflow label still uses the Ubuntu 18.04 virtual environment.

GitHub-hosted runners include the operating system's default built-in tools, in addition to the packages listed in the above references. For example, Ubuntu and macOS runners include grep, find, and which, among other default tools.

If there is a tool that you'd like to request, please open an issue at actions/virtual-environments.

Software installed on GitHub-hosted runners

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