git-el software package provides fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (emacs support), you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install git-el
git-el is installed in your system.
Make ensure the git-el package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep git-el *
You will get with git-el package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Version Control Systems |
| Package | git-el |
| Version | 1:1.7.9.5-1ubuntu0.3 |
| Description | fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (emacs support) |
| Sub Section | vcs |