My Current git version 1.7.9.5...
I need to upgrade to at least git 1.7.10 to have git clone
command to work properly
I tried sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
for upgrading but resulted in this :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 125, in <module>
ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 80, in get_ppa_info_from_lp
curl.perform()
pycurl.error: (7, "couldn't connect to host")
What am I supposed to do to get the latest git installed (to upgrade)?
sudo apt-get update
on your machine or go to ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu in your browser?
The Ubuntu git maintainers team has a PPA just for that
ppa:git-core/ppa
Just do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
Error: Unable to locate package add-apt-repository
If add-apt-repository
command is not found, install it first with:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Error: failed to start the dirmngr
If you receive the error:
gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or directory
then, install dirmngr
with:
sudo apt install dirmngr --install-recommends
The question was: "What to do when sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
command fails".
I had the same issue in a VM behind a proxy. I resolved it with the following two steps:
Set up proxy environment variables export http_proxy=http://
Just follow below commands to update latest version of git
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git -y
git --version
To install or update Git in the latest version of Ubuntu, simply type following command in terminal and hit enter (return).
sudo apt-get install git
For checking Git version.
git --version
or super manual method
download git source from git hub and then
make prefix=/usr/local all
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-git-on-ubuntu-14-04
Install Git in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install gitk git-gui
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add-apt-repository
fails with "command not found" on your system, you have to runapt-get install python-software-properties
first on your Ubuntu