Installing Git on Dreamhost
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 <
$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/<
$ 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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Great post! Thanks!
thanks for this – really useful!
Thanks! Before they do git –version at the end, they need to update their PATH variable in .bash_profile:
export PATH=/home//packages/libexec/git-core:$PATH
As a follow-up on my last post, above, the correct path will have your Dreamhost username between /home/ and /packages. The blogging software removed the brackets I put there to show that.
. ~/.bash_profile too
good tutorial tips, get 1.7 here:
http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.0.tar.gz
Thanks for the tutorial. Worked like a charm on 1.7.1 on my Dreamhost PS, but just remember to do the path export!