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Installing Git on Dreamhost

04.08.08 - 10:01pm

Most of this is taken from this post.

However, that post had an error (for my account) so I did the following:

Make sure you replace < > with your dreamhost user name.

$mkdir ~/src
$ cd ~/src
$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.4.rc4.tar.gz
$ tar xzf git-1.5.4.rc4.tar.gz
$ cd git-1.5.4.rc.tar.gz
$ ./configure –prefix=/home/< >/packages NO_CURL=1 NO_MMAP=1
$ make
$ make install
$ git –version

That should return:
git version 1.5.4.rc4

And then you have git on that machine.

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