Git is a free and open source distributed version control system . Git 2.16.2 comes with the large number of updates verses previous release 2.15. It is designed to handle a small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Git on a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.
Install Git on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2. Installing Git on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Method 1. Install Git on Ubuntu from repository.
sudo apt install git -y
To check current version installed of Git use following command:
[[email protected] ~]# git --version git version 2.15.1
Method 2. Install Git on Ubuntu from Source Code
First, install all prerequisites:
sudo apt install make libssl-dev libghc-zlib-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext unzip sudo wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.16.2.zip sudo unzip v2.16.2.zip
Next, compile the previously downloaded git source code and install git binaries:
cd git-2.16.2 make prefix=/usr/local all sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
Confirm Git the installation . Run the following command to verify which version of git is installed:
[[email protected] ~]# git --version git version 2.16.2
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Git. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Git in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Git web site.