8i | 9i | 10g | 11g | 12c | 13c | 18c | 19c | 21c | 23c | Misc | PL/SQL | SQL | RAC | WebLogic | Linux
Home » Articles » Linux » Here
Git 2.x Installation on Linux
The version of Git available from the Yum repositories is typically quite old. This article describes the manual installation of Git 2.x on Linux. The same method should work for all the RHEL clones (Oracle Linux, CentOS) and Fedora.
From RPM
Make sure you've enabled the EPEL repository.
# RHEL7/OL7 yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm yum install -y epel-release # RHEL8/OL8 dnf install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm dnf install -y epel-release
Remove any existing git installations, and install git from an RPM repo.
# RHEL7/OL7 yum remove -y git yum remove -y git-* yum install -y https://packages.endpointdev.com/rhel/7/os/x86_64/endpoint-repo.x86_64.rpm yum install -y git # RHEL8/OL8 dnf remove -y git dnf remove -y git-* dnf install -y https://packages.endpointdev.com/rhel/8/os/x86_64/endpoint-repo.x86_64.rpm dnf install -y git
Test it, by checking the version.
git --version
From Source
Install the prerequisite packages and remove the any current Git installation.
# RHEL7/OL7 yum install -y curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel yum install -y gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker yum remove -y git # RHEL8/OL8 dnf install -y curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel dnf install -y gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker dnf remove -y git
Download the latest Git installation from kernel.org and unpack it.
cd /usr/src wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.36.1.tar.gz tar xzf git-2.36.1.tar.gz
Install it.
cd git-2.36.1 make prefix=/usr/local/git all make prefix=/usr/local/git install echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin" >> /etc/bashrc source /etc/bashrc
Test it, by checking the version.
git --version
For more information see:
Hope this helps. Regards Tim...