Subject: Re: Mercurial over Git no success

From: Gabriel Filion <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:50:42 -0500

On 11-02-14 04:26 PM, knittl wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM,  <[email-masked]> 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