http://progit.org/book/ch1-4.html
Installing on Linux
If you want to install Git on Linux via a binary installer, you can generally do so through the basic package-management tool that comes with your distribution. If you’re on Fedora, you can use yum:
$ yum install git-core
Or if you’re on a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu, try apt-get:
$ apt-get install git-core