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How To Install Git on Ubuntu

Updated on April 13, 2026
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πŸ‘ How To Install Git on Ubuntu

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Tutorial Series: Introduction to Git: Installation, Usage, and Branches

This series covers the installation and usage of git on an Ubuntu server. After completing the series, the reader should feel comfortable installing and using git, as well as how to create two branches (master and develop) and how to merge code from the development stage to production.

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Thanks for the awesome tutorial, Lisa. I would like to add the login when you’re using 2FA. tldr - generate new token and use it instead the password (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29297154/github-invalid-username-or-password)

This is SUPER not obvious so will be awesome to be seen often to shorten the search adventure for everyone.

Can you tell me please why there is a sentence - You will need an Ubuntu 20.04 server with a non-root superuser account.

Why I need a non-root user to set up Git?

Thank you for this tutorial Lisa.

I just want to add this informations:

For Ubuntu, this PPA provides the latest stable upstream Git version

# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa 
# sudo apt update
# sudo apt install git

I hope this will help others and maybe updated in this tutorial :p

This information was found : here

and you can find more informations about git : here

Happy coding !

Your teaching style is really smooth!

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