Install Git on Linux

Debian / Ubuntu (apt-get)

Git packages are available via apt:

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

   $ 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 using the following commands, replacing Emma’s name with your own. These details will be associated with any commits that you create:

   $ git config --global user.name "Emma Paris"
   $ git config --global user.email "eparis@atlassian.com"
   

Fedora (dnf/yum)

Git packages are available via both yum and dnf:

1. From your shell, install Git using dnf (or yum, on older versions of Fedora):

   $ sudo dnf install git
   

   or

   $ sudo yum 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 using the following commands, replacing Emma’s name with your own. These details will be associated with any commits that you create

   $ git config --global user.name "Emma Paris"
   $ git config --global user.email "eparis@atlassian.com"
   

Build Git from source on Linux

Debian / Ubuntu

Git requires the several dependencies to build on Linux. These are available via apt:

1. From your shell, install the necessary dependencies using apt-get:

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

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

   $ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
   

3. To build Git and install it under /usr, run make:

   $ make all doc info prefix=/usr
   $ sudo make install install-doc install-html install-info install-man prefix=/usr
   

Fedora

Git requires the several dependencies to build on Linux. These are available via both yum and dnf:

1. From your shell, install the necessary build dependencies using dnf (or yum, on older versions of Fedora):

   $ sudo dnf install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel asciidoc xmlto docbook2X
   

   or using yum. For yum, you may need to install the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository first:

   $ sudo yum install epel-release
   $ sudo yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel asciidoc xmlto docbook2X
   

2. Symlink docbook2X to the filename that the Git build expects:

   $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi
   

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

   $ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
   

4. To build Git and install it under /usr, run make:

   $ make all doc prefix=/usr
   $ sudo make install install-doc install-html install-man prefix=/usr