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How to install Git on Linux

Chances are, your Linux distribution already came with Git installed. In order to test that, open a terminal, type

git --version

and press enter. If the git version is shown, git obviously is already installed; otherwise, you will get a "command not found." In that case, install Git with the package management tool of your distribution. On Debian-based distribution such as Ubuntu, use

sudo apt-get install git-all

in Suse, use

sudo zypper install git-all

while on RHEL based distributions

sudo dnf install git-all

will do the job. Check git --version again to see that your install was successful. For more information, see the Git website: https://git-scm.com/.