• A Current Git Version on Ubuntu

    A laptop with a blank blue screen beside an orange package and a wooden drawer filled with grey parcels in a sunlit workspace

    Note (2026): This is a 2012 recipe; the commands below are preserved for historical reference. For a current installation, follow Git’s Linux installation guide. It uses the git package and still lists the Ubuntu Git Maintainers PPA. Check package names and prerequisites for your Ubuntu release rather than copying the historical commands.

    Add the repository:

    bash
    add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install git-core

    If the system does not have add-apt-repository, you need to install one more package first:

    bash
    sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

    Hooray, we have a modern Git version!

Read next