This tutorial will help you to install git 2.9.5 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 and Fedora 26/25/24 operating systems using the source code.
Step 1 – Install Required Packages
Before installing Git from source code, make sure you have already installed required packages on your system. If not use the following command to install required packages.
# yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel
# yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
Step 2 – Download and Install Git 2.9.5(One of the latest)
Download latest Git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 2.14.0.
# cd /opt
# yum install wget
# wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.5.tar.gz
# tar xzf git-2.9.5.tar.gz
After downloading and extracting Git source code, Use the following command to compile the source code.
# cd git-2.9.5
# make prefix=/usr/local/git all
# make prefix=/usr/local/git install
Step 3 – Setup Environment
After installation of git client. Now you must need to set binary in the system environment. So edit /etc/bashrc file and add below content to it
export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
Now execute below command to reload configuration in current environment.
# source /etc/bashrc
After completing above steps. Let’s use following command to check current git version.
# git –version git version 2.9.5
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