• A Current Git Version on Ubuntu

    Note (2026): On modern Ubuntu releases, Git is available from the standard repositories as the git package. Git’s own Linux installation page still documents the Ubuntu Git Maintainers PPA for newer upstream releases. The old python-software-properties package has been replaced by software-properties-common.

    Add the repository:

    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:

    sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

    Hooray, we have a modern Git version!