Adjusting the documentation - 1.5 installing git - getopt package

[4wk-]

Small suggestion about compiling git documentation.
URL: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

"Installing from Source" part:

In order to be able to add the documentation in various formats (doc, html, info), these additional dependencies are required (Note: users of RHEL and RHEL-derivatives like CentOS and Scientific Linux will have to enable the EPEL repository to download the docbook2X package):

$ sudo dnf install asciidoc xmlto docbook2X getopt
$ sudo apt-get install asciidoc xmlto docbook2x getopt

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On a Debian Stretch 9.4 fresh install:

# apt-get install getopt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package getopt

I was stucked a bit.
Why? Because package getopt is already installed:

# getopt --version
getopt from util-linux 2.29.2

• In order to avoid users to panic / loose time finding why we got this error, it might be usefull to add a sentence about this package?

Thanks for your awesome work anyway, great doc.

[jnavila]

I guess d35b434 was a bit too generic but only applied to rpm based distros. Dare to submit a PR for this? 👍

[4wk-]

@jnavila sure.

However even if I'm "fluent" with git, I am not with Github. I cloned the repo, create a branch, edit a file, and commit, but I'm not able to push (getting the 403 error through https). I tried with the remote url to https://4wk-@github.com/progit/progit2.git/info/refs and https://git@github.com/progit/progit2.git/info/refs

What did I miss? -_-' I need to push before asking a PR, right?

[ben]

Yes, but you don't use a username with the HTTPS protocol. Try clicking the "Fork" button at the top right of this repo's screen, then setting your remote to https://github.com/4wk-/progit2.git. After you push to your fork, follow the directions here.

[4wk-]

Thank you @ben for the step I missed ;)