Month: October 2011

  • Install Git From Source On Linux

    If you are like me and want to install git-core core from source instead of one to the many binary packages out or you just have a distro that does have a binary for it. Here is what you will need to get it installed.

    • POSIX-compliant shell
    • GCC – gnu c compiler
    • GNU Interactive Tools
    • Perl 5.8 or Later
    • Openssl
    • Openssh
    • zlib
    • libcurl
    • expat

    Once all you have verified or install on the required packages. You can download the source fromĀ Git Homepage.

    shell$ wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.x.x.tar.gz

    shell$ tar -zxf git-1.x.x.tar.gz

    shell$ cd git-1.x.x

    shell$ ./configure –prefix=[install_path]

    shell$ make all

    shell$ sudo make install

    A little old school and not the hard.

    Resources:
    http://git-scm.com/
    http://ruby.about.com/od/git/a/2.htm