Installing Git on Ubuntu/Debian systems

To install Git on Ubuntu systems, follow these steps:

1. From your shell, install Git using the apt-get command:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git  

2. Verify the installation was successful by typing git --version:

$ git --version
git version 2.9.2  

3. Configure your Git username and email for a single repository:

$ git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "email@gmail.com"  

4. Install the necessary dependencies using the apt-get command:

$ apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev asciidoc xmlto docbook2x  

5. Clone the Git source (or if you don't yet have a version of Git installed, download and extract it):

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

6. To build the Git source and install it under /usr, run make:

$ make all doc info prefix=/usr
$ sudo make install install-doc install-html install-info install-man prefix=/usr  

With this, we have discussed installing and configuring Git on different platforms, including Windows, CentOS, and Linux systems.