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Install and upgrade to latest Git version on Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint

March 26, 2014 by Sharad Chhetri Leave a Comment

In this tutorial we will learn,how to install and upgrade to latest Git version on Debian based Operating System.At the time of writing this post,git version 1.9.1 has been released on 2014-03-18. The information of new Git version release can be obtained from git-scm.com

The practical has been tested successfully in Ubuntu,Debian and Linux Mint.

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system.In modern time,it is one the most popular version system widely used in small to big sized companies.Git has come up with alternate choice over SVN.

The below given steps are applicable for both install and upgrade to latest git version

In this method we will add git ppa link https://launchpad.net/~git-core/

Step 1: Run the below given command to add git ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

Step 2: Run apt-get update command

sudo apt-get update

Step 3 .Now install or upgrade to latest available git version

sudo apt-get install git

Step 4: After installation you can check the git version by using below given command

git --version

Below given is the reference from my system

linux@tuxworld:~/Desktop$ git --version
git version 1.9.1
linux@tuxworld:~/Desktop$

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