Ubuntu – E: Unable to locate package git

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I am trying to install git, I used sudo apt-get install git command and it results:

E: Unable to locate package git

This question have been asked by many people but not a single answer has fixed my problem, I have tried:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

P.s: I am using ubuntu 14.04

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You can add manually repository

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys E1DD270288B4E6030699E45FA1715D88E1DF1F24
sudo su -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu trusty main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/git.list"

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install git

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