Git install latest version on Oracle Linux
Hey! In this post I would like to discuss about git installation on Oracle Linux. By default git from the yum repo version is older 1.8.2. To get used of the latest features of git needs to install the latest version of git. Currently, the git version is 2.30.1. But this experiment will be same further as well. Step 1: Navigate to a path where the git installer needs to download. cd /opt wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.30.1.tar.gz #remove the default git version from yum repo yum remove git -y # extract the git tarball tar -zxf git-2.30.1.tar.gz cd git-2.30.1 Step 2: The prerequisites for git installation is as: # prerequisites yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel -y yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker -y Step 3: Install the git version # installing latest version of git make prefix=/usr/local/git all make prefix=/usr/local/git install Step 4: Now all set, we need to have the latest git i...