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[seanhess]

Hi Guys,

There is supposed to be a yum package for it, but it doesn't show up in the list of packages. I tried compiling from source, but it didn't work.

Do I just need to specify a different repository or something? Is there any way to easily get git on my linode?

Thanks
~sean

[Navi]

Adding this Repo : http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/ to Yum will give you easy access to a lot of popular rpm's including git :)

[seanhess]

Thanks Navi,

I tried adding the repo, but I'm pretty new to this whole thing ...so... I created a .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d, but the existing repos in there have more information than you've given me. Or can I just use the --enablerepo flag with the full url you included?

Anyway, the build instructions at this url worked

http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html

[seanhess]

Just found an article that has all the info for the dag repository

http://zilkey.com/2008/3/5/installing-git-on-railsmachine-centos-4-4

[sweh]

These are comments I made to myself for installing rpmforge repository on my Centos machines. Covers both centos4 and centos5

http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge

Centos4: yum --enablerepo=extras install yum-plugin-priorities
Centos5: yum install yum-priorities

Make sure that yum-priorities is enabled by editing the
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf
file, and ensuring that it contains the following lines:

[main]
enabled=1

(this should be the default)

rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
(check signature)
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Edit the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and set up priorities by adding
the line:
priority=N
to a repository entry, where N is an integer number from 1 to 99.

The recommended settings are:
[base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1
[centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2
Third Party Repos such as rpmforge ... priority=N
(where N is > 10 and based on your preference)