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    How to Install Git 1.9 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6 & Fedora 27/26

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    Git has released 1.9.5 version on Dec 18, 2014. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system. It is designed to handle a small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. To know more about Git 1.9.5 read Git release notes. This article will guide you to install Git 1.9.5 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6, Fedora 27,26 Systems using the source code. To learn about Git, access Git console on your browser and know about its uses.

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    Use this tutorial for installing latest Git on your Redhat based systems.

    Step 1 – Install Required Packages

    Before compiling Git from source code, make sure you have installed required packages on your system or Use the following command to install it.

    yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel

    Step 2 – Download and Compile Git Source

    Download latest Git source code from Git google code or simply use following command to download Git 1.9.5.

    cd /usr/src
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.9.5.tar.gz
tar xzf git-1.9.5.tar.gz

    After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use the following command to compile the source code.

    cd git-1.9.5
make prefix=/usr/src/git all
make prefix=/usr/src/git install
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/src/git/bin" >> /etc/bashrc
source /etc/bashrc

    Step 3 – Check Git Version

    Upon completion of above steps, you have successfully install Git in your system. Let use following command to check git version

    git --version

git version 1.9.5

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    1. Petar on

      Hi, I tried to install git 1.9.1 version according to the steps from above on CentOs 6 32bit on virtualBox. At the end when I tried to run git –version I got error message: – bash: command git not found. I tried the last two commands with sudo command, but nothing change.
      echo “export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin” >> /etc/bashrc
      source /etc/bashrc
      I don’t know what ‘source’ command is doing, and I don’t know why I don’t get the wrong result at the end. On the previous steps, I don’t get any visible error(s).

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    4. paskuale on

      Great article, u save me lot of time, on aruba cloud centos !! Yum get me git_1.7.1 very old !!! with this article I installed git_2.1.1 😉 thanks

      Reply
    6. Jason on

      “#echo “export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin” >> /etc/bashrc” gives:

      “bash: /etc/bashrc: Permission denied”

      Reply
    8. Vaidya on

      Thanks for the tutorial.

      Can you please post instructions on how to upgrade existing git as well. I have git 1.7.1 installed in centos 6.5 (/usr/bin/git). I want to replace that version with 1.9.0

      Thanks

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      • JaqFlash on

        Vaidya, I had a similar issue.

        I found that simply running “yum remove git” took the factory fitted 1.7.1 off the system.

        After that when I ran “git –version” it automatically showed version 1.9.0

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    9. Nikolay Dobromirov on

      Thanks for the tutorial.
      As my environment was very clean, I was missing 2 dependencies required for the compilation on cent os 6.5.
      You can add them in step 1: gcc and perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

      Reply