Install Git on CentOS

Source1: http://www.davegardner.me.uk/blog/2010/01/29/setting-up-git-on-centos-5-server/

Source2: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8059743/trying-to-install-git-on-centos-5-and-a-little-lost

Installing Git on CentOS 5 is easy if you make use of the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository.

1. To setup EPEL all you need to do is create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and then paste in the following:

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL

[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1

[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/SRPMS
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
gpgcheck=1

2. Install GPG Keys


Go into rpm-gpg directory

cd /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/

Download GPG KEYS from https://fedoraproject.org/keys

wget https://fedoraproject.org/static/217521F6.txt

Rename to "217521F6.txt" to "RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL"

cp 217521F6.txt RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL

Remove "217521F6.txt" because we don't need in that file anymore

rm 217521F6.txt

If you want you can remove prefix lines from the file by vim and :wq (:Write and Quit)

vim RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL

3. Installing git git-daemon

yum install git git-daemon