How to install GIT on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

This tutorial will walk you through installing and configuring Git on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. For a more detailed version of this tutorial, with better explanations of each step

Step 1 — Update Default Packages

Logged into your Ubuntu 18.04 server as a sudo non-root user, first update your default packages.

$ sudo apt-get update

Step 2 — Verify Git is installed or not

Open terminal and type one of the following commands

Step 3 — Install Git

 $ sudo apt-get install git -y (or) sudo apt-get install and press 'y' to continue the installation.

Step 3 — Confirm Successful Installation

$ which git - location/directory of the git 

$ git --version - currently installed version of git

Step 4 — Set Up Git

Now that you have Git installed and to prevent warnings, you should configure it with your information.

Note: we have to provide git hub username and associate email

If you don`t have a git account please visit how to create Git account

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Eg: git config --global user.name "krishnadasari"

git config --global user.email "youremail@domain.com"

 Eg: git config --global user.email "dasarikrishna@gmail.com"

If you need to edit this file, you can use a text editor such as nano:

nano ~/.gitconfig

Now we are ready to create repositories in the git hub.