Installing Git from source in Edgy Eft

Written on March 23, 2008 by Jim |

download the necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install comerr-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev \
libidn11-dev \
libkadm55 \
libkrb5-dev \
texi2html \
texinfo \
docbook2x \
libosp5 \
libxml-namespacesupport-perl \
libxml-sax-expat-perl \
libxml-sax-perl \
opensp

download the latest stable release from here:

http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

i preferred the global install, and went for

make prefix=/usr all doc info

and then

sudo make prefix=/usr install install-doc

(the INSTALL file suggests adding “install-info” to the end of that (to install the docs in INFO format), but I kept getting an error during the make task- no dice.)

type

git –version

and make sure you’ve gotten a nice response. If so, done! If not, post a comment here and/or ask around on the git forums.

if you’d like to be adventurous: rather than downloading the latest release candidate, consider going all the way and building from the latest version of the git repository (after getting another version of git to work, natch).

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  1. Jim Cropcho April 24, 2008 3:55 pm

    needs package ‘asciidoc’ and ‘xmlto’ as well.