Centos7.3 Install Git of the latest version

January 6, 2024

by Melissa Hunter

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Upgrade Git on the server, but the git version in the default YUM source is too old, so you can only install it by compiling source code

Check the existing Git version

Git version or git --versionCopy the code

You can run the yum info git command to check the git version in the yum source. If you want to install git, you can use yum to install git.

yum install -y git
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Uninstall older versions of Git

yum remove git
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Install git’s dependent libraries

yum install -y curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
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Download a higher version of Git, such as:

Wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.9.2.tar.gz tar - ZXVF git - 2.9.2. Tar. GzCopy the code

Go to the directory and compile and install

cdGit - 2.9.2. / configure -- prefix = / usr /local/git // check the dependencies and set the installation path make & make install // compile the installationCopy the code

Configure global environment variables

vim /etc/profile

export GIT_HOME=/usr/local/git
export PATH=$PATH:$GIT_HOME/bin

source/etc/profile./ Refresh permissionCopy the code

Check if it is the specified version of the installation

git version
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