install git on RHEL3

Question

having a problem installing git on redhat enterprise 3. When I try and install the rpm it gives a circular dependency problem.

[root@tflaus001 tmp]# rpm -i git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm
warning: git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
    perl(Git) is needed by git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf


[root@tflaus001 tmp]# rpm -i perl-Git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm
warning: perl-Git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
    git = 1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf is needed by perl-Git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf
    perl(Error) is needed by perl-Git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf

can anyone give me an idea of how to fix this or what I need to add to yum.conf to fix this?

Answer 1

Install both at the same time, i.e.

rpm -i git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm perl-Git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm

An alternative is to use yum localinstall some-package-...rpm where yum will resolve and download any missing dependencies (but in this case you do not need that since you obviously have the two packages you need already).

Answer 2

# rpm -ivh git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm perl-Git-1.5.2.1-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm

or you can install DAG repo yum install git*

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