Open Source Comes to Campus/Curriculum/Laptop setup/Linux git

One step
If you are running Debian or Ubuntu, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install git-core

That will install the git version control system. If you get an error, let a staff member know.

Set your user name and email
You'll also want to tell git your name and email address. To do this, type:

git config --global user.name "your-user-name" git config --global user.email "your email"

You can test that they've successfully been set by typing:

git config --global user.name git config --global user.email

Sign up for a Github account
You can do so at this link.

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