github in ubuntu looking for the application?

Question

I'm fairly new to all this programming with github and ubuntu. I'm trying to play with ruby on rails. Anyways, I've messed with windows and github, where when I install git, I can an actual application that runs, and I can open git bash. But when i just try to install github on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install git, it seems like its already there because in the terminal command lines it says 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 286 not upgraded

But now I'm trying to search in my folders for the git application, but its not there? Am I missing something?

Terribly newbie question,

Thanks!

Answer 1

On Unix, you don't install "github", only git.
And it is probably already installed (in /usr/bin, unless you recompile it: /usr/local/bin)

That would allow you git repositories hosted on GitHub, from a command line session.
You also have some GUIs for Git in Linux.

This differs from Windows where you can install:

• Git for Windows (msysgit distribution)
• And/Or GitHub for Windows (which actually includes its own msysgit)