Since updating my laptop to Hardy Heron I had not yet installed an update git, so I thought it would be a good time for that: Install the usual prerequisites: sudo apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev Fetch, unpack, and build: wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.5.3.tar.bz2 tar jxf git-1.5.5.3.tar.bz2 cd git-1.5.5.3 make prefix=/usr all Unfortunately, at this point I …