Installing and Running Applications in Bash

Installing git

A good practice is to download all package information before installing any application. This can be done using the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Let’s install git now:

sudo apt-get install -y git

The -y flag is an automatic yes to prompts. It allows the process to run non-interactively.

Connect to the terminal.

Use student-password as password if prompted to enter a password.

We can also check the version of git installed:

git --version

How to run an application

Now, we installed a new application. Its executable file will be in /usr/bin. How do we run this application in Bash? There are several approaches we can follow:

1. By the name of the executable file.
2. By the absolute path.
3. By the relative path.

Let’s consider each approach in detail.

We used the first approach to call GNU utilities. ...