Below is a quick guide to installing Gitolite on Ubuntu. Create an SSH public/private key pair [silas@client]$ ssh-keygen -t rsa Upload the public key to the server [silas@client]$ scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]:/tmp/user.pub SSH to the server and become root [silas@client]$ ssh [email protected] [silas@server]$ sudo su - Install gitolite [root@server]# apt-get install gitolite Switch to