git installation error missing installation candidate

Question

I tried installing git on Ubuntu 12.10 using the command sudo apt-get install git. But I am getting error message like this:

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Answer 1

I found a nice tutorial about git on ubuntu 12 here.

It mainly mentioned the dependencies prior to install:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev build-essential

and to use this for the git installation: sudo apt-get install git-core sudo apt-get update

and further more it says: Once they are installed, you can download the latest version of Git from the google code page.

wget https://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.8.1.2.tar.gz

After it downloads, untar the file and switch into that directory:

tar -zxf git-1.8.1.2.tar.gz

cd git-1.8.1.2

If you want to do a global install, install it once as yourself and once as root, using the sudo prefix:

make prefix=/usr/local all
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

If you need to update Git in the future, you can use Git itself to do it.

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

Go and check the tutorial and leave her a comment ;-)