Git - how to verify if and where Git is installed on Ubuntu

Question

I am new to Ubuntu and Git. How I can verify that I have installed git on my machine? When I tried apt-get I got:

root@ubuntu:/home/nebojsa# apt-get install git Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done git is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:   linux-headers-3.13.0-24 linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic   linux-headers-3.13.0-39 linux-headers-3.13.0-39-generic   linux-headers-3.13.0-40 linux-headers-3.13.0-40-generic   linux-headers-3.13.0-43 linux-headers-3.13.0-43-generic   linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic   linux-image-3.13.0-40-generic linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic   linux-image-extra-3.13.0-24-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-39-generic   linux-image-extra-3.13.0-40-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-43-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 133 not upgraded. 

but I don't know where are the packages installed.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Type which git. It should return the path to the executable

If you want to see more details: https://serverfault.com/questions/96964/list-of-files-installed-from-apt-package

Answer 2

Just call the git --version. It should return something like this:

$ git --version git version 1.9.3 (Apple Git-50)