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 [~]#

On later versions of CentOS, using the standard 'yum install git' seems to work just fine. — James John McGuire 'Jahmic', Aug 21 '13 at 13:03

score 135 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '12 at 04:49

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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

edited Jun 12 '12 at 04:49

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answered Nov 30 '11 at 14:28

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@coure2011 - Seems like I can get to it through my browser, what sort of error exactly are you getting? – rjzii Feb 02 '12 at 18:06
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This is really good but the dl.fedoraproject.org version may be a better option for some (for me, I had an odd conflict with a perl SVN integration tool with this package so had to use the Fedora version instead). – Iain Collins Mar 30 '12 at 08:07
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This also includes GUI tools and a lot of dependencies. You can use `yum install git` to get only the base install. – pfrenssen May 04 '12 at 15:13
Here's the link to webtatic's instructions: http://www.webtatic.com/packages/git17/ – Collin Anderson Jun 18 '12 at 16:51
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I didn't want to make the commitment of adding a new repo, so I just web-browsed to [http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/](http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/) and cherry-picked the RPM files I needed. – MarkHu Jun 21 '12 at 19:28
I get this error summary when following that instruciton: http://elsonsolano.com/screenshot/2012-07-18_1555.png – PinoyStackOverflower Jul 18 '12 at 07:56
@ElsonSolano: Note the the x86_64 and i386 descriptors on the packages. You're trying to install mismatching architectures (looks like 64-bit on a 32-bit environment). I would check your Webtatic configuration if that's the repo you're using. – eldarerathis Jul 18 '12 at 13:29
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just a comment to say thanks for a great answer - this really helped – Simon Courtenage Nov 15 '12 at 12:01
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I only needed the last line. Where `yum install git` didn't work, `yum install --disableexcludes=main git-all` did. Thanks. – djskinner Jan 16 '13 at 11:49
Same here, I only needed `yum install --disableexcludes=main git-all` – joshua.paling Aug 22 '13 at 01:39
This should be the selected answer – Atif Dec 05 '13 at 18:49
Confirmed, the second line does the job. – Zsolt Szilagyi Mar 06 '14 at 10:38
Link is now dead. – Cinder Biscuits Sep 27 '20 at 15:32

eldarerathis · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-05T16:28:42.813

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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/<latest-git-source>.tar.gz
tar -xvjf <latest-git>.tar.gz
cd <git>
make (possibly a ./configure before this)
sudo make install

**Substitute the portions enclosed in <> 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.

edited Jun 05 '12 at 16:28

answered Sep 23 '10 at 14:33

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I tried to install it from yum but it says "No package git available" – Prakash Sep 23 '10 at 18:51
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@Prakash: It looks like git is not in the standard CentOS repositories. You can either install from source or set up the EPEL repo on your machine: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL. Also, you may want to consider asking this question on Superuser/Serverfault if you need more help. – eldarerathis Sep 23 '10 at 19:06
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@Rimian: I know that link manages to install git and gitweb too, but its focus is on gitosis, which is unmaintained and completely superseded by gitolite. – Cascabel Feb 02 '12 at 18:08
It will even give an error when you try to git init. Now how will I uninstall this one?! – PinoyStackOverflower Jul 18 '12 at 07:46
@ElsonSolano: `yum remove git`. See CentOS's [yum documentation](http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/) for additional information. – eldarerathis Jul 18 '12 at 13:32
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`sudo yum install epel-release` and `sudo yum install git` work great on Red Hat as well. (RHEL). – Jess Dec 03 '13 at 14:19
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@Jess Very useful, simple answer. Thanks. Suggest you post this as an answer, because it was direct and not complicated. – octopusgrabbus Feb 11 '16 at 14:00
***`make (possibly a ./configure before this)`*** - Are you kidding me??? Do you know how many things can go wrong due to PCRE, cURL, OpenSSL and other dependent library problems. Git silently swallows its configuration errors. Your first clone will fail for no apparent reason. After suffering a number of "build Git from sources", I'm now looking for a package-managed version. – jww Jan 26 '17 at 12:38

score 34 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 27 '20 at 15:43

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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

edited Sep 27 '20 at 15:43

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answered Feb 02 '12 at 18:08

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Note that that "download.fedora.redhat.com" is now "dl.fedoraproject.org" but this still works. – Iain Collins Mar 30 '12 at 08:04
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This answer is much better than building from source. It's much easier to manage packages on a continuing basis with yum. – Joshua Davis Nov 21 '12 at 14:50
Worked fine (Centos 5.9) – chrisjlee Jul 30 '13 at 20:25
In addition to the 2 commands above, I had to execute "sudo yum install git" to get git binary. I am on centOS 5.9 – user674669 Jul 09 '14 at 21:23

Datageek · Answer 4 · 2011-12-22T19:04:00.957

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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

edited Dec 22 '11 at 19:04

answered Dec 12 '11 at 12:38

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isn't there a reliable way of configuring something from source as a package? – Henrik Dec 22 '11 at 18:23
Do you mean to create a new package? I guess you can always do so, yes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/880227/what-is-the-minimum-i-have-to-do-to-create-an-rpm-file – Datageek Dec 22 '11 at 19:05
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I had the same trouble and had to use this approach too. For searchability, here are some of the errors I ran into when trying to install via webtatic or EPEL package approach: "Missing Dependency: perl(Error) is needed by package git-1.7.7.3-1.w5.x86_64 (webtatic)", "Missing Dependency: perl-Git = 1.7.7.3-1.w5 is needed by package git-1.7.7.3-1.w5.x86_64 (webtatic)". No errors when installing using the method specified in this answer. – jlpp Apr 15 '12 at 00:50
I did this using downloading version 1.7.12 and it could not git clone a https url saying that https is not supported. it tried another answer from user SCL using dl.fedoraproject.org as per the comment on that answer and it worked well. – simbo1905 Oct 11 '12 at 19:14

score 14 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 05 '13 at 15:10

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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

edited Mar 05 '13 at 15:10

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Git 1.8 is kind of old. The script below provides 2.12, which is the latest as of this writing. – jww Mar 28 '17 at 07:01

score 11 · Answer 6 · answered May 17 '16 at 19:58

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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.

answered May 17 '16 at 19:58

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score 6 · Answer 7 · edited Jul 31 '12 at 21:38

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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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jww · Answer 8 · 2017-03-28T09:36:03.313

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

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered May 03 '17 at 21:41

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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

answered May 03 '17 at 21:41

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This the one that finally worked for me in December 2019 – MikeC Dec 31 '19 at 14:06

user1326493 · Answer 10 · 2017-10-31T13:04:58.410

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

score 1 · Answer 11 · edited Sep 09 '11 at 01:16

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&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!

You can format your answer using Markdown rather than using HTML directly. It's easier to edit for others. — Noufal Ibrahim, May 14 '11 at 13:34
git is in rpmforge, so all you have to do is add rpmforge to your list of repositories and install: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B => add rpmforge => yum install git-all (that's it) — michael, Oct 26 '11 at 07:27

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 10 '14 at 01:14

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Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos* so that all lines that have enabled = 0 instead have enabled = 1.

answered Sep 10 '14 at 01:14

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 23 '17 at 07:55

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

score 0 · Answer 14 · edited Mar 28 '17 at 07:17

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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
```

edited Mar 28 '17 at 07:17

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How is it different from existing answers? – Datageek Feb 08 '12 at 00:51
I believe you need to configure Git with `--with-openssl` and `--with-curl` to get the HTTPS helpers. Otherwise, a `git clone https://github.com/...` will fail. – jww Mar 28 '17 at 07:15

How can git be installed on CENTOS 5.5?

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