Microgit is a version control system that is distributed and decentralized. It is designed to be lightweight and easy to use. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install Microgit on Arch Linux.
Before we begin with the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
Follow the steps below to install Microgit on Arch Linux:
Microgit requires some dependencies to be installed before it can be installed. We can install these dependencies using the following command:
sudo pacman -S gcc make boost zlib openssl
You can download Microgit from its official website or from its Github repository. In our case, we will be downloading it from the Github repository. You can do this by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/microgit-com/microgit.git
After downloading Microgit, we can install it on our Arch Linux system. We can do this by running the following commands in the Microgit directory:
cd microgit
sudo make install
After installation, we can verify if Microgit is successfully installed on our system using the following command:
microgit --version
This command will display the current version of Microgit installed on your system.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Microgit on Arch Linux. We started by installing its dependencies, downloading its source code, and then installing it using the make command. Always verify if Microgit was installed correctly after installation.
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