Mobile DevOps

Installing Git on Ubuntu/Debian systems

To install Git on Ubuntu systems, follow these steps:

1. From your shell, install Git using the apt-get command:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git  

2. Verify the installation was successful by typing git --version:

$ git --version
git version 2.9.2  

3. Configure your Git username and email for a single repository:

$ git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"  

4. Install the necessary dependencies using the apt-get command:

$ apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev asciidoc xmlto docbook2x  

5. Clone the Git source (or if you don't yet have a version of Git installed, download and extract it):