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

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