install_pygit_ubuntu.sh

#!/bin/bash
# this will install everything as root, so take that into account before you run it


set -eu

# need cmake, python development headers, ZLib and OpenSSL
sudo apt-get install -y cmake python2.7-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev

root=`pwd`

git clone -b master --depth 1 git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git

cd libgit2

# instructions from http://libgit2.github.com/#install
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
sudo cmake --build . --target install

# avoid "cannot open shared object file" ImportErrors
sudo ldconfig  
ldconfig -p | grep libgit

sudo pip install pygit2 -U

# clean up after ourselves
cd $root
rm -rf libgit2


# now, from the python interpreter: 
# >>> from pygit2 import Repository
# if you don't get any errors, you're done!

python -c 'from pygit2 import Repository' && echo 'pygit2 installed.' || echo 'failed to install pytgit2'