### 2.5 Installation from the git repository ¶

Lepton uses the `git` version control system. If you wish to try out the very latest version of Lepton, you will need to install some extra tools in addition to the ones listed above:

- The git version control tool, version 1.6 or newer.
- GNU Automake, version 1.11.0 or newer.
- GNU Autoconf, version 2.60 or newer.
- GNU Libtool.
- GNU Texinfo documentation system.

  Note that on some distributions the TeX support for Texinfo is packaged separately.

Once you have these installed, you need to clone the Lepton git repository:

    git clone https://github.com/lepton-eda/lepton-eda.git

To generate the configure script, run:

    autoreconf -ivf

You can then proceed to configure and build Lepton as described above.