How can git be installed on CENTOS 5 5

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How can I install git on CENTOS 5 5 machine  I tried to install it from yum but got following msg   root host      sudo yum install git Loaded plugins  fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile    addons  centos mirrors tds net    base  mirror ubiquityservers com    extras  mirrors serveraxis net    updates  pubmirrors reflected net addons                                                      951 B     00 00 base                                                       2 1 kB     00 00 extras                                                     2 1 kB     00 00 updates                                                    1 9 kB     00 00 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Setting up Install Process No package git available  Nothing to do root host

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If you are using CentOS the built in yum repositories don t seem to have git included and as such  you will need to add an additional repository to the system  For my servers I found that the Webtatic repository seems to be reasonably up to date and the installation for git will then be as follows     Add the repository rpm -Uvh http   repo webtatic com yum centos 5 latest rpm    Install the latest version of git yum install --enablerepo webtatic git-all   To work around Missing Dependency  perl Git  errors   yum install --enablerepo webtatic --disableexcludes main  git-all

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Edit  etc yum repos d Centos  so that all lines that have enabled   0 instead have enabled   1

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Just updating this for 2017 and later  as CentOS 5 has reached EOL and the URL for EPEL has changed   sudo rpm -Uvh http   archives fedoraproject org pub archive epel 5 x86 64 epel-release-5-4 noarch rpm sudo yum install git   This gets you git 1 8 2 3

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Just installed git using the following instructions:

Install EPEL V5
#rpm -Uvh http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
Install Git
# yum install git git-daemon
Check
# git --version
git version 1.8.2.3
Optionally install Git GUI
# yum install git-gui

For i386 substitute x86_64 by i386 in the URL at step #1.

#rpm -Uvh http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

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I m sure this question is about to die now that RHEL 5 is nearing end of life  but the answer seems to have gotten a lot simpler now    sudo yum install epel-release sudo yum install git   worked for me on a fresh install of CentOS 5 11

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Just  sudo rpm -Uvh https   archives fedoraproject org pub archive epel 5 i386 epel-release-5-4 noarch rpm sudo yum install git-core

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yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel  Get the required version of GIT from https   www kernel org pub software scm git    wget https   www kernel org pub software scm git  version gz   tar -xzvf git-version gz  cd git-version    configure  make  make install

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I ve tried few methods from this question and they all failed on my CentOs  either because of the wrong repos or missing files   Here is the method which works for me  when installing version 1 7 8        yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel     wget http   git-core googlecode com files git-1 7 8 tar gz     tar -xzvf   git-1 7 8 tar gz     cd   git-1 7 8       configure     make     make install    You may want to download a different version from here  http   code google com p git-core downloads list

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This worked for me on CentOS    Install dependencies   yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel  Get Git  cd  usr local src wget http   code google com p git-core downloads detail name git-1 7 8 3 tar gz tar xvzf git-1 7 8 3 tar gz cd git-1 7 8 3  Build Git    configure make make install

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OK  there is more to it than that  you need zlib   zlib is part of CentOS  but you need the development form to get zlib h     notice that the yum name of zlib development is quite different possibly than for apt-get on ubuntu debian  what follows actually works with my CentOS version   in particular  you do   configure on git  then try make  and the first build fails with missing zlib h  I used a two-step procedure to resolve this a  Got RPMFORGE for my version of CentOS  See   www centos org modules newbb viewtopic php topic id 18506 amp forum 38 and this  wiki centos org AdditionalResources Repositories RPMForge  In my case  as root  or with sudo     wget http   packages sw be rpmforge-release rpmforge-release-0 5 2-2 el5 rf x86 64 rpm   rpm -K rpmforge-release-0 5 2-2 el5 rf   rpm   rpm -i rpmforge-release-0 5 2-2 el5 rf   rpm    Note  the RPM for rpmforge is small  like 12 3K  but don t let that fool    you  it augments yum the next time you use yum     this is the name that YUM found   still root or sudo    yum install zlib-devel x86 64    and finally in the source directory for git  still root or sudo       configure  this worked before  but I ran it again to be sure    make   make install    this install put it by default in  usr local bin git     not my favorite choice  but OK for the default     and git works fine

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For installing git   install last epel-release      rpm -Uvh http   dl fedoraproject org pub epel 5 i386 epel-release-5-4 noarch rpm    Install git from repository       yum install git

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yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel gcc wget http   git-core googlecode com files git-1 7 11 4 tar gz tar zxvf git-1 7 11 4 tar gz  cd git-1 7 11 4   configure  make make install

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From source  From the repos  The easiest way is to use the repos  sudo yum install git should do it  It may first be necessary to set up an additional repo such as EPEL first if git is not provided by the main repos   If you want to install from source  you can try these instructions  If you have yum-utils installed it s actually easier than that  too     sudo yum build-dep git wget http   kernel org pub software scm git  lt latest-git-source gt  tar gz tar -xvjf  lt latest-git gt  tar gz cd  lt git gt  make  possibly a   configure before this  sudo make install     Substitute the portions enclosed in  lt  gt  with the paths you need  Exact procedure may vary slightly as I have not compiled git from source  personally  there may be a configure script  for example   If you have no idea what I m talking about  then you may want to just install from the repo as per my first suggestion

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It looks like the repos for CentOS 5 are disappearing. Most of the ones mentioned in this question are no longer online, don't seem to have Git, or have a really old version of Git. Below is the script I use to build OpenSSL, IDN2, PCRE, cURL and Git from sources. Both the git:// and https:// protocols will be available for cloning.

Over time the names of the archives will need to be updates. For example, as of this writing, openssl-1.0.2k.tar.gz is the latest available in the 1.0.2 family.

Dale Anderson's answer using RHEL repos looks good at the moment, but its a fairly old version. Red Hat provides Git version 1.8, while the script below builds 2.12 from sources.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# OpenSSL installs into lib64/, while cURL installs into lib/
INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local
INSTALL_LIB32="$INSTALL_ROOT/lib"
INSTALL_LIB64="$INSTALL_ROOT/lib64"

OPENSSL_TAR=openssl-1.0.2k.tar.gz
OPENSSL_DIR=openssl-1.0.2k

ZLIB_TAR=zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
ZLIB_DIR=zlib-1.2.11

UNISTR_TAR=libunistring-0.9.7.tar.gz
UNISTR_DIR=libunistring-0.9.7

IDN2_TAR=libidn2-0.16.tar.gz
IDN2_DIR=libidn2-0.16

PCRE_TAR=pcre2-10.23.tar.gz
PCRE_DIR=pcre2-10.23

CURL_TAR=curl-7.53.1.tar.gz
CURL_DIR=curl-7.53.1

GIT_TAR=v2.12.2.tar.gz
GIT_DIR=git-2.12.2

###############################################################################

# I don't like doing this, but...
read -s -p "Please enter password for sudo: " SUDO_PASSWWORD

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** zLib **********"

wget "http://www.zlib.net/$ZLIB_TAR" -O "$ZLIB_TAR"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to download zLib"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

rm -rf "$ZLIB_DIR" &>/dev/null
tar -xzf "$ZLIB_TAR"
cd "$ZLIB_DIR"

LIBS="-ldl -lpthread" ./configure --enable-shared --libdir="$INSTALL_LIB64"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to configure zLib"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

make -j 4

if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "Failed to build zLib"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

echo "$SUDO_PASSWWORD" | sudo -S make install

cd ..

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** Unistring **********"

# https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=26786
wget "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/$UNISTR_TAR" --no-check-certificate -O "$UNISTR_TAR"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to download IDN"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

rm -rf "$UNISTR_DIR" &>/dev/null
tar -xzf "$UNISTR_TAR"
cd "$UNISTR_DIR"

LIBS="-ldl -lpthread" ./configure --enable-shared --libdir="$INSTALL_LIB64"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to configure IDN"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

make -j 4

if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "Failed to build IDN"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

echo "$SUDO_PASSWWORD" | sudo -S make install

cd ..

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** IDN **********"

# https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=26786
wget "https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/$IDN2_TAR" --no-check-certificate -O "$IDN2_TAR"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to download IDN"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

rm -rf "$IDN2_DIR" &>/dev/null
tar -xzf "$IDN2_TAR"
cd "$IDN2_DIR"

LIBS="-ldl -lpthread" ./configure --enable-shared --libdir="$INSTALL_LIB64"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to configure IDN"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

make -j 4

if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "Failed to build IDN"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

echo "$SUDO_PASSWWORD" | sudo -S make install

cd ..

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** OpenSSL **********"

wget "https://www.openssl.org/source/$OPENSSL_TAR" -O "$OPENSSL_TAR"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to download OpenSSL"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

rm -rf "$OPENSSL_DIR" &>/dev/null
tar -xzf "$OPENSSL_TAR"
cd "$OPENSSL_DIR"

# OpenSSL and enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_12 option
IS_X86_64=$(uname -m 2>&1 | egrep -i -c "(amd64|x86_64)")

CONFIG=./config
CONFIG_FLAGS=(no-ssl2 no-ssl3 no-comp shared "-Wl,-rpath,$INSTALL_LIB64" --prefix="$INSTALL_ROOT" --openssldir="$INSTALL_ROOT")
if [[ "$IS_X86_64" -eq "1" ]]; then
    CONFIG_FLAGS+=("enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128")
fi

"$CONFIG" "${CONFIG_FLAGS[@]}"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to configure OpenSSL"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

make depend
make -j 4

if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "Failed to build OpenSSL"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

echo "$SUDO_PASSWWORD" | sudo -S make install_sw

cd ..

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** PCRE **********"

# https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=26786
wget "https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre//$PCRE_TAR" --no-check-certificate -O "$PCRE_TAR"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to download PCRE"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

rm -rf "$PCRE_DIR" &>/dev/null
tar -xzf "$PCRE_TAR"
cd "$PCRE_DIR"

make configure
CPPFLAGS="-I$INSTALL_ROOT/include" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,$INSTALL_LIB64 -L$INSTALL_LIB64" \
    LIBS="-lidn2 -lz -ldl -lpthread" ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pcre2-8 --enable-pcre2-16 --enable-pcre2-32 \
    --enable-unicode-properties --enable-pcregrep-libz --prefix="$INSTALL_ROOT" --libdir="$INSTALL_LIB64"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to configure PCRE"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

make all -j 4

if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "Failed to build PCRE"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

echo "$SUDO_PASSWWORD" | sudo -S make install

cd ..

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** cURL **********"

# https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=26786
wget "https://curl.haxx.se/download/$CURL_TAR" --no-check-certificate -O "$CURL_TAR"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to download cURL"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

rm -rf "$CURL_DIR" &>/dev/null
tar -xzf "$CURL_TAR"
cd "$CURL_DIR"

CPPFLAGS="-I$INSTALL_ROOT/include" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,$INSTALL_LIB64 -L$INSTALL_LIB64" \
    LIBS="-lidn2 -lssl -lcrypto -lz -ldl -lpthread" \
    ./configure --enable-shared --with-ssl="$INSTALL_ROOT" --with-libidn2="$INSTALL_ROOT" --libdir="$INSTALL_LIB64"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to configure cURL"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

make -j 4

if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "Failed to build cURL"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

echo "$SUDO_PASSWWORD" | sudo -S make install

cd ..

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** Git **********"

wget "https://github.com/git/git/archive/$GIT_TAR" -O "$GIT_TAR"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to download Git"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

rm -rf "$GIT_DIR" &>/dev/null
tar -xzf "$GIT_TAR"
cd "$GIT_DIR"

make configure
CPPFLAGS="-I$INSTALL_ROOT/include" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,$INSTALL_LIB64,-rpath,$INSTALL_LIB32 -L$INSTALL_LIB64 -L$INSTALL_LIB32" \
    LIBS="-lidn2 -lssl -lcrypto -lz -ldl -lpthread" ./configure --with-openssl --with-curl --with-libpcre --prefix="$INSTALL_ROOT"

if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]; then
    echo "Failed to configure Git"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

make all -j 4

if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "Failed to build Git"
    [[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 1 || return 1
fi

MAKE=make
MAKE_FLAGS=(install)
if [[ ! -z `which asciidoc 2>/dev/null | grep -v 'no asciidoc'` ]]; then
    if [[ ! -z `which xmlto 2>/dev/null | grep -v 'no xmlto'` ]]; then
        MAKE_FLAGS+=("install-doc" "install-html" "install-info")
    fi
fi

echo "$SUDO_PASSWWORD" | sudo -S "$MAKE" "${MAKE_FLAGS[@]}"

cd ..

###############################################################################

echo
echo "********** Cleanup **********"

rm -rf "$OPENSSL_TAR  $OPENSSL_DIR  $UNISTR_TAR  $UNISTR_DIR  $CURL_TAR  $CURL_DIR"
rm -rf "$PCRE_TAR $PCRE_DIR $ZLIB_TAR $ZLIB_DIR $IDN2_TAR $IDN2_DIR $GIT_TAR $GIT_DIR"

[[ "$0" = "$BASH_SOURCE" ]] && exit 0 || return 0

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