Install Git 2.26.2 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint / Debian and CentOS

Git a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to large projects with speed...

Git a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to large projects with speed and efficiency. It is a client for the Popular GitHub.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install git 2.26.2 On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 18.04, LinuxMint and CentOS

The latest version of GIT is 2.26.2 which is a stable version and it is released on 19th April 2020

Changelog

• Security fix that appears in v2.17.5

How to install Git 2.26.2 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint & CentOS

2 ways we can install git in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 19.10, LinuxMint 19, CentOS 8.1

• Method 1: via PPA
• Method 2: via tar file

Method 1: via PPA

Step 1: Add the Official PPA provided by GIT

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

Step 2: Update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install GIT 2.26.2

sudo apt-get install git

Method 2: via tar file

Step 1: Install the dependencies before compiling the packages

For Debian distributions

apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev zlib1g-dev

For CentOS

yum install openssl-devel curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel zlib-devel perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Step 2: Download the tar file from the official site by using wget

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.26.2.tar.gz

Step 2: Extract the package and configure it

tar -xvzf git-2.26.2.tar.gz

Step 3: Compile the git

./configure  && make && make install

Step 4: Verify the version 

git --version