Installing Git on CentOS/RHEL servers

To install Git on a CentOS or RHEL server, follow these steps:

1. From your shell, install Git using yum (or dnf on older versions of Fedora):

$ sudo yum install git

Or:

$ sudo dnf install git  

2. Verify the installation was successful by typing the following command:

$ git --version  

3. Configure the username and email address for all repositories:

$ git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "email@gmail.com"  

4. Install the necessary build dependencies using dnf (or yum on older versions of Fedora):

$ sudo dnf install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel asciidoc xmlto docbook2X  

Or using the yum-Epel repo:

$ sudo yum install epel-release
$ sudo yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel asciidoc xmlto docbook2X  

5. Symlink docbook2x to the filename that the Git build expects:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi  

6. Clone the Git source (or if you don't yet have a version of Git installed, download and extract it):

$ git clone https://github.com/git/git  

7. To build the Git source and install it under /usr, run make:

$ make all doc prefix=/usr
$ sudo make install install-doc install-html install-man prefix=/usr  

Following the preceding steps will install and configure Git on a CentOS/RHEL server.