Installing git and github and signing in via terminal - Ubuntu

Published: 2024-09-02

I have horrible luck, or my old servers motherboard is on the way out and eating drives one by one. Either way, I’ve been rebuilding it a lot lately until today I just replaced it.

As I rebuild, I’m making guides of what I’m doing so if I have to rebuild again, I don’t have to remember what I did!

Maybe it’ll help you too.

1. In terminal, to install github and git:

sudo apt install git gh

2. Run the following to authenticate to your github

gh auth login

3. When prompted, select Github, https, login with a browser.

The terminal will give you a code and you can login on a completely different computer if need be, just in case you don’t have a gui on the server you’re currently doing this on.

4. Set your username and email so you can make commits.

$ git config --global user.name "Frodo Baggins"
$ git config --global user.email frodob@hobbitmail.com

5. That is all.

Now you can git clone your private repo’s or commit to your repos since you’re now logged in properly.