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I am trying to set up Git on an Ubuntu Machine (I'm using a Samsung Chromebook running Ubuntu 12.04).
When I entered "sudo apt-get install git" and it successfully installed Git 1.79
user@ChrUbuntu:~$ git --version git version 1.7.9.5 I can't figure out what I am doing wrong here. Any suggestions?
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Download the installation file from the Git website. Run the installation and follow the install wizard to update Git to the latest version. Note: Using the install wizard to update Git overwrites the current installation.
It is easiest to install Git on Linux using the preferred package manager of your Linux distribution. If you prefer to build from source, you can find tarballs on kernel.org. The latest version is 2.37.
Try this: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa. sudo apt-get update. sudo apt-get install git -y.
For new installations of Ubuntu I would first try this to get the latest updates
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade For more info on this see https://askubuntu.com/questions/81585/what-is-dist-upgrade-and-why-does-it-upgrade-more-than-upgrade
That should solve it but if not, add the repository from these guys https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git This way you don't have to build it, etc.
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