How to Update Git on Ubuntu

Unable to update Git on Ubuntu

For new installations of Ubuntu I would first try this to get the latest updates

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

For more info on this see https://askubuntu.com/questions/81585/what-is-dist-upgrade-and-why-does-it-upgrade-more-than-upgrade

That should solve it but if not, add the repository from these guys https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa

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

This way you don't have to build it, etc.

how to install latest git using apt-get?

Just try it:

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

using git to update itself

"Updating git with git" means updating the git repo sources with a git pull, once you have cloned https://github.com/git/git.

You would still need to build git from said sources, and install it before seeing a difference in the git --version command.

See the "INSTALL" file:

$ make prefix=/usr/local all doc info ;# as yourself
# make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root

Since you are installing that updated git in /usr/local/bin, make sure that path comes first in your own $PATH environment variable (that you can set in your .profile)

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The other way would be to use apt-install (see "How to upgrade Git on Ubuntu Hardy?"), but when I look for the package git-core, the Precise package only goes up to git_1.7.9.5.

That is why building from sources can be an alternative to waiting for git-core to be updated.

How do I update git to its latest version on Linux?

This is due to Ubuntu has not updated the package yet in their repositories. The only way around this would be to compile from source, which you can download from https://github.com/git/git.

git version update is not reflecting

/usr/bin/git was installed by apt, so it was upgraded by apt.

/usr/local/bin/git was not installed by apt. And because of that, apt knows nothing about it. Even if apt knew about it, it wouldn't be safe to it to touch it, because it wasn't installed by apt. This is why it was not upgraded by apt.

What you should do:

1. Delete /usr/local/bin/git (and related files, such as man pages).
2. Make /usr/local/bin/git a symlink to /usr/bin/git.

The second step is optional. It will help if a program uses the full path /usr/local/bin/git instead of just git. If all programs merely use git, they will find /usr/bin/git (via the PATH) once you've deleted /usr/local/bin/git.

Updating a local repository with changes from a GitHub repository

Probably:

was: git pull origin master

now: git pull origin main

GitKraken won't update on Ubuntu

you just download te install package from the oficial page web(https://www.gitkraken.com/download) and install, thats work for me, sorry for my english

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