Installing and Running GIT in the Same Bash Script-CodePudding

I'm trying to make a bash script that installs the latest Git release and using it to clone something within the same script. However this does not seem possible since I would need to close and reopen my terminal before I could use the git command.

Currently, I'm running git clone first before the installation but I wonder if there is a way that it installs first before using the command.

Any lead would be appreciated. Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

Yes This is completely possible.

vim git_latest_release_install_clone_repo.sh

Now, you need to test, and write proper script which also installs other required libraries to build the git, info, docs etc.

I have manually built git from the latest release several times. Not through script, but you can do it through a bash script.

#!/bin/bash

wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/refs/tags/v2.36.0.tar.gz

tar xvzf v2.36.tar.gz

cd git-2.36.0

sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev

sudo apt-get install asciidoc xmlto docbook2x

sudo apt-get install install-info

make configure

./configure --prefix=/usr


make all doc info


sudo make install install-doc install-html install-info

** I am assuming you have installed, build-essentials and proper libraries to build git. So, I think the direct manual process is better, so you know, which library is missing, and you can install it.

Or in Ubuntu sudo apt install --fix-broken

Source 1.5 Getting Started - Installing Git

CodePudding user response：

Yeah so as @torek mentioned, I forgot to export to $PATH. All works now!