Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases or clone the Tig repository git://github.com/jonas/tig.git.
NB: Do not use tig-2.0.tar because it will fail to compile due to these issues https://github.com/jonas/tig/pull/283 and https://github.com/jonas/tig/issues/337
The quick and simple way to install Tig is:
$ make
$ make install
By default, tig is installed in $HOME/bin. To install tig elsewhere set prefix to the desired path:
$ make prefix=/usr/local
$ sudo make install prefix=/usr/local
Documentation files, such as manpages, are distributed in t