Installing Git on Ubuntu 10.04

I’m positive there are other blog posts almost identical to this one, however since this blog serves for the purpose of posterity, I am going to post it as a reference regardless.

In order to install Git (via command line) on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lync, you must follow these steps:

• sudo aptitude build-dep git-core
• wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.7.tar.gz
• tar xvzf git-1.7.7.tar.gz
• cd git-1.7.7
• ./configure
• make
• sudo make install
• git --version