How to install git in Ubuntu

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to run Terminal

Then type:

1. sudo apt-get install git

If the above command errors...

Follow the next steps:

1. wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.8.3.tar.gz
2. tar -xvf git-1.8.3.tar.gz 
3. cd git-1.8.3/
4. sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev
5. make prefix=/usr/local all
6. sudo make prefix=/usr/local install