How To Install SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04

In this article, we want to teach you How To Install SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04.

SmartGit is a graphical Git client with support for SVN and Pulls Requests for GitHub and Bitbucket. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

It is a tool in the Source Code Management Desktop Apps category of a tech stack.

Also, it can simply and quickly realize the version control in Git and Mercurial, so as to greatly improve your work efficiency.

Steps To Install SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04

To set up SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04, you need to log in to your server as a non-root user with sudo privileges. To do this, you can follow our article the Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 20.04.

Now follow the steps below to set up SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04.

Set up SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04

First, you need to update your local package index with the following command:

sudo apt update

Then, you need to visit the SmartGit downloads page to check the latest version of SmartGit and copy the deb package link address of it.

SmartGit Download

Now use the wget command to download the SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04:

wget https://www.syntevo.com/downloads/smartgit/smartgit-21_2_0.deb

Next, use the following command to install SmartGit on your server:

sudo apt install ./smartgit-21_2_0.deb

Here you need to add the PPA repository to get your SmarGit with the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa

Update your system with the command below:

sudo apt update

Install Smartgit Ubuntu

At this point, you can get your SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04 with the following command:

sudo apt install smartgit

When your installation is completed, you can access SmartGit on your server.

Access SmartGit

On your Ubuntu desktop from Activity type SmarGit and then click on it.

You will see:

Conclusion

At this point, you learn to set up SmartGit on Ubuntu 20.04.

Hope you enjoy using it.

May this article about installing and configuring XRDP on Ubuntu 20.04 be useful for you.