How to Install Git on Linux

Installing git is pretty easy on Linux. Here are the commands for several distributions.

 

• Debian and Ubuntu:

  sudo apt-get install git
  

• CentOS:

  sudo yum install git
  

• Fedora:

  sudo yum install git-core
  

• Arch Linux:

  sudo pacman -Sy git
  

• Gentoo:

  sudo emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git