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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12 Comments

  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

      Reply
  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

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