Install Lazygit on Ubuntu 20.04

Lazygit is a terminal based UI tool for Git commands. This tool allows to view commit history, pull or push changes, resolve merge conflicts, checkout recent branches, and more.

This tutorial explains how to install Lazygit on Ubuntu 20.04.

Prepare environment

Before starting, make sure you have installed Git. You can read post how to install it.

Install Lazygit

Get the latest version tag of Lazygit release and assign version tag to variable.

LAZYGIT_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')

Download tar.gz file from releases page of the Lazygit repository.

curl -Lo lazygit.tar.gz "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest/download/lazygit_${LAZYGIT_VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"

Extract lazygit executable file from archive to /usr/local/bin directory.

sudo tar xf lazygit.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin lazygit

Now lazygit can be used as a system-wide command for all users.

We can check Lazygit version:

lazygit --version

Remove unnecessary tar.gz file:

rm -rf lazygit.tar.gz

Testing Lazygit

For testing purpose clone the Lazygit repository:

git clone https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit.git lazygit-src

Navigate to repository directory:

cd lazygit-src

Now run the lazygit command:

lazygit

In the left side we can see 5 panels: status, files, branches, commits and stash. Use the right and left arrow keys to move between panels. We can scroll up and down in right panel using Page Up and Page Down keys.

In the following example branches panel has been opened. In the right side we can see commit history.

You can press Q key to quit Lazygit.

Uninstall Lazygit

If you want to completely remove Lazygit, delete executable file:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/lazygit