GIT installation

GIT - INSTALLATION

This article will guide you to install Git 2.0.5 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 and Fedora 21/20 and CloudLinux 7 Systems using source code.

Step 1: Install Required Packages

Firstly we need to make sure that we have installed required packages on your system using following commands.

# yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel

# yum install  gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker                  

Step 2: Uninstall old Git RPM

Now remove any prior installation of Git through RPM file or Yum package manager. If your older version is also compiled through source, then skip this step.

# yum remove git

Step 3: Download and Compile Git Source

Download git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 2.0.5.

# cd /usr/src

# wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.7.1.tar.gz

                        Or

# wget –O /usr/src https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.7.1.tar.gz

# tar xzf git-2.0.5.tar.gz

After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use following command to compile source code.

# cd git-2.0.5

# make prefix=/usr/local/git all

# make prefix=/usr/local/git install

# echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin" >> /etc/bashrc

# source /etc/bashrc

Step 4: Check Git Version

One completion of above steps, you have successfully install Git in your system. Let use following command to check git version

# git --version