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Procedure for installing tig for Ubuntu 16.04

July 22, 2018

I’ve written a procedure for installing tig

Ubuntu Version

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS"

Procedure for installing tig

package install

apt install tig

manual install

$ cd /tmp
$ wget  https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.4.0/tig-2.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf tig-2.4.0.tar.gz
$ cd tig
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Tig Version

$ tig -v
tig version 2.0.2

Reference

[https://jonas.github.io/tig/:embed:cite]

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