Installing Git

Git is an alternative source code management tool that you may want to use instead of Subversion. These steps will allow you to install it on your CentOS 4 server.

Things to consider:

If you need to install git but don’t see it in the yum repository- or simply need to run the latest version- use the following steps. Note: Be sure you’ve configured your server to use the Rpmforge Repository.

sudo yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install asciidoc xmlto curl curl-devel
 # check for the latest version at http://git.or.cz/
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.6.tar.gz
tar xvzf git-*.tar.gz
cd git-*
make configure
./configure --prefix=/usr --without-tcltk
make all doc
sudo make install install-doc

If you get this error while installing the curl-devel package:


Error: Missing Dependency: libidn = 0.4.6-1.2.el5.rf is needed by package libidn-devel

Then you may have a newer version of libidn which is stopping it from being installed. To solve this, remove libidn and try again.


sudo yum remove libidn
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