24 03 2013

Installing git from source, also covers installing git on Solaris.

Install some dependencies

yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel

Get the latest source from https://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

cd /usr/src
wget https://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.8.1.rc2.tar.gz
tar -xvf git-1.8.1.rc2.tar.gz
cd git-1.8.1

Install

 ./configure
make
make install

And that’s it.

For Solaris

cd /usr/src    
wget http://www.sunfreeware.com/intel/10/git-1.7.6-sol10-x86-local.gz
gunzip git-1.7.6-sol10-x86-local.gz
pkgadd -d git-1.7.6-sol10-x86-local

To test do

/usr/local/bin/git

Sublime Text 2 git.sh