How to install git to red hat enterprise linux 5.3 x64?

Question

How can I configure yum to use some repository which has git rpms?

Answer 1

Use the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository. The easiest way to enable it is by installing the epel-release package. Here's how if you have RHEL 5 x86_64:

[root@localhost]# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
[root@localhost]# yum install git

Answer 2

For a more up-to-date version of Git (1.7.2.3 at the time of this writing versus 1.5.5.6 in the EPEL repository), see Andrew Thompson's Webtatic repository:

http://www.webtatic.com/blog/2009/09/git-on-centos-5/

Answer 3

i Suggest you can download the source from offical webpage and to do configure & make & make install instead of use yum. :D

Answer 4

Elaborating @Cristian Ciupitu answer it would be possible to do it via yum.repos.d:

1. Go to https://fedoraproject.org/keys and install the RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL public key by downloading its contents into the RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL file and running rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL.

2. Create a file rhel-epel.repo (choose any name you want) in /etc/yum.repos.d/

3. Add following content:

   [rhel-epel]
   name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch
   baseurl=http://download3.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/$releasever/$basearch
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
   

4. run yum install git.

Answer 5

one way i feel it should work /etc/yum.repos.d/same.repo if you give git locate where your looking git packages