Installing git from source ubuntu
May 14th, 2009 by pyratWhen you have an old version of ubuntu but want a new version of git. And potentially have it already installed.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove git-core sudo apt-get install tcl8.4 tk8.4 sudo apt-get build-dep git-core wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.1.tar.gz tar -zxvf git-1.6.3.1.tar.gz cd git-1.6.3.1 ./configure make sudo make install sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/git /usr/bin/git