From: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:50:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial over Git no success
Message-ID: <4D59CDE2.1060903@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimWfC8UqYVNjr0MiE1QE+W0fVhZYi3wfxP1e29t@mail.gmail.com>

On 11-02-14 04:26 PM, knittl wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM,  <david@davidwbrown.name> wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > ./configure
>> > make
>> > make install
>> >
>> > Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:
> why not simply install the version of git that comes with ubuntu?
> `sudo apt-get install git` should do the trick ...
> 

If you'd like to use git's latest release, before it gets included into
an Ubuntu release, you can use this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa

Add it with the following command:

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

Then, sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install git

-- 
Gabriel Filion