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

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

Answer 2

For installing git

1. install last epel-release

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

1. Install git from repository

yum install git

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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
   

Answer 5

Just:

sudo rpm -Uvh https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install git-core

Answer 6

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