Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Install new version of 'git' in CentOS 6.4

Install new version of 'git' in CentOS 6.4

# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
# rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK
# rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
# yum clean all

# yum update
# git --version
git version 1.7.1


The new git version is 1.7.11.3. So remove old (1.7.1) and install new.
# yum remove git

Disable base repo
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# vi CentOS-Base.repo
and add line enable=0 to base group

Enable rpmforge-extras repo
# vi rpmforge.repo
and add line enable=1 to rpmforge-extras group

# yum provides git
to list all git versions available to install

# yum install git-1.7.11.3-1.el6.rfx.i686
# git --version
git version 1.7.11.3


Enable base repo and disable rpmforge-extras repo. 

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