How can git be installed on CENTOS 5.5?

Question

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: fastes         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me on CentOS:

1. Install dependencies:

   yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel
   

2. 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
   

3. Build Git

   ./configure
   make
   make install