How To Install gitolite3 on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gitolite3 on Ubuntu.
What is gitolite3
gitolite3 is:
Gitolite is an SSH-based gatekeeper providing access control for a server that hosts many git repositories. Without gitolite, each developer needing to push to one of the repositories hosted would need a user account on that server; gitolite lets you do that just using SSH public keys tied to a single, common, user that hosts all the repositories.
Gitolite can restrict who can read (clone/fetch) from or write (push) to a repository, and who can push to what branch or tag - an important issue in corporate environments. Other features include:
- access control by branch-name or by modified file/directory;
- per-developer “personal namespace” prefixes;
- simple but powerful configuration file syntax (with validation);
- config files (and authority for maintaining them) can be split;
- easy integration with gitweb;
- comprehensive logging;
- easy migration from gitosis.
There are three methods to install gitolite3 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gitolite3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gitolite3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gitolite3
Install gitolite3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gitolite3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gitolite3
Install gitolite3 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gitolite3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gitolite3
How To Uninstall gitolite3 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the gitolite3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gitolite3
Uninstall gitolite3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gitolite3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gitolite3
Remove gitolite3 Configurations and Data
To remove gitolite3 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gitolite3
Remove gitolite3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gitolite3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gitolite3
Dependencies
gitolite3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gitolite3 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.