!!! danger "" If your Unix-fu and ssh-fu are good, this will work for you. Otherwise, please click the "next" button up there on the right for a more leisurely, detailed, drive through the install process.
Tip: look for packages called 'gitolite3' before you look for 'gitolite'.
If you're comfortable with Unix and ssh, just copy your ssh public key from your workstation to the hosting user, then do something like this:
```sh su - git mkdir -p ~/bin
git clone https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite gitolite/install -ln ~/bin # please use absolute path here gitolite setup -pk yourname.pub ```
Please be sure to read any messages produced by these steps, especially the last one, to make sure things went OK.
Notes:
~/bin
is in $PATH
. If it is not, add something to your
shell startup files to make it so. If some other writable directory is in
the path, you can use that if you like.