Using apt-get install

Use the below command on your ubuntu terminal: [code language=”css”] $ sudo apt-get install git [/code]

Installation from source code

But at times you want to install a particular version of GIT for reasons. Follow the below to do that: [code language=”css”] sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev build-essential autoconf git clone https://github.com/git/git cd git git checkout v2.1.2 make configure ./configure with-openssl make prefix=/usr/local all sudo make prefix=/usr/local install ** Errors You May Find During Installation: * tclsh failed; using unoptimized loading MSGFMT    po/de.msg make[1]: *** [po/de.msg] Error 127 make: *** [all] Error 2 Solution: sudo apt-get install gettext [/code] The above steps will install git version 2.1.2 in your system.