How to install GIT in Devuan linux
Git installation is very simple and easy using Debian/Ubuntu repositories, which are used by Devuan linux by default:
$ sudo apt-get install git
output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
git-man liberror-perl patch
Suggested packages:
git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email
git-gui gitk gitweb git-arch git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn
diffutils-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
git git-man liberror-perl patch
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 31.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii-security/main amd64 git amd64 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u7 [4,170 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii/main amd64 patch amd64 2.7.5-1+deb9u2 [112 kB]
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Setting up git (1:2.11.0-3+deb9u7) ...
And now we can check, if git is installed:
$ git --version
git version 2.11.0
Good, version 2.11.0 is installed and ready to use.