Installing Git on cPanel/CentOS Servers

Git is awesome, plain and simple! If you would like to install this on a cPanel and/or a CentOS based server you have 2 options: Installing from and RPM or installing from source.

RPM/Yum Based

You should just simply be able to do a yum install on the server and git will e pulled from the “updates” repo:

yum install git

If you run into a dependency issue with perl-Git, check and make sure that perl is not entered into the excludes in /etc/yum.conf. Now one issue with simply pulling from the basic repo is that the version may not be as up to date as possible. On my server I pulled down version 1.7.1, however the latest stable version of git is 1.8.2. You may be able to find much more up to date versions in the EPEL repo or RPMForge. You can also install the latest available version straight from source:

Source Install

First off, you’ll want to make sure you have any and all dependencies taken care of:

yum -y install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel

Now lets grab the latest version and git (See what I did there?) to work!!

cd /usr/local/src/
wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/master.tar.gz
tar xzf master
cd git*
make prefix=/usr/local all
make prefix=/usr/local install 

And thats it! Now feel free to learn git (http://try.github.com) and give it a shot!

root@server [~]# git --version
git version 1.8.2.GIT