Installing Git on Debian-based distribution Linux (such as Ubuntu)

There are a couple of ways by which you can install Git on a Debian system:

1. Using the Advanced Package Tool (APT) package management tools:

You can use the APT package management tools to update your local package index. Then, you can download and install the latest Git using the following commands as the root user:

      $ apt-get update -y
      $ apt-get install git -y  

The preceding commands will download and install Git on your system.

1. Using the source code, you can do the following:
   1. Download the source from the GitHub repository, and compile the software from the source.

Before you begin, let's first install the dependencies of Git; execute the following commands as the root user to do so:

      $ apt-get update -y 
      $ apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
      libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext unzip -y   

2. After we have installed the necessary dependencies, let's go to the Git project repository (https://github.com/git/git) to download the source code, as follows:

      $ wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v1.9.1.zip -Ogit.zip  

3. Now, unzip the downloaded ZIP file using the following commands:

      $ unzip git.zip
      $ cd git-*  

4. Now you have to make the package and install it as a sudo user. For this, use the commands given next:

      $ make prefix=/usr/local all
      $ make prefix=/usr/local install

The preceding commands will install Git on your system at /usr/local.