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 from 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