Install git or update git without apt-get or yum - linux

I have some linux boxes that do not allow me to use yum to install packages. Instead I need to download the zip or tar and then use a package manager to install the items on my linux boxes.
When you go to the git-scm page, the only way they provide to install git is to use yum, apt-get, etc from the command line.
Why is there not just a zip file?
Where can I find the package to install?
Has anyone else had this same issue?

I had the same issue before. I tried to install git from source and it works.
Intalling these packages first:
curl
autoconf
zlib-devel
openssl-devel
perl
cpio
expat-devel
gettext-devel
Getting the GIT scm source code:
git-latest.tar.gz
Compiling the GIT scm from source
tar xzvf git-latest.tar.gz
cd git-{date} // edit it
autoconf
./configure --with-curl=/usr/local
make
make install

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How can I install a recent version of GDAL on Amazon Linux?

I'd like to install GDAL on an EC2 instance running Amazon Linux (which I think is based on RHEL 6). I'd like to avoid compiling from source if possible.
The version of GDAL included in the EPEL Yum repository is too old for my purposes (gdal-1.7.3-15.el6.x86_64). EPEL 7 includes gdal-1.11.4-1.el7.x86_64 which would be perfect. Is there any way I could use this repo on Amazon Linux?
So far I've also tried:
Adding GDAL from the ELGIS 6 repo (which has version 1.9.2). However this failed to install – as found / by others. The ELGIS Wiki advises people to use EPEL now anyway.
Downloading and installing the more recent GDAL RPM from EPEL 7, but it fails due to mismatches between GDAL's dependencies and the available packages in my enabled repos.
I'm not at all experienced with Amazon Linux (or Yum) so any hints much appreciated.
This worked for me.
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel
sudo yum -y install make automake gcc gcc-c++ libcurl-devel proj-devel geos-devel
cd /tmp
curl -L http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz | tar zxf -
cd gdal-2.0.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --without-python
make -j4
sudo make install
cd /usr/local
tar zcvf ~/gdal-2.0.0-amz1.tar.gz *
From https://gist.github.com/mojodna/2f596ca2fca48f08438e
I faced the same problem. It is quite a bit challenging to install with yum.
Required packages
Using yum, you can install GDAL's required packages:
cpp
sqlite3
libtiff
cmake3
like so:
sudo yum install cpp.x86_64 sqlite-devel.x86_64 libtiff.x86_64 cmake3.x86_64
PROJ and GDAL
These two have to be installed from source (tarball) and they also depend on the build you want.
As for me, I was able to install GDAL 3.2.1 on Amazon Linux 2. I also have not tried installing it on an Amazon Linux 1 so it may or may not differ.

Why couldn't the latest version of rsync be installed on CentOS 7.2?

I am using CentOS 7.2.
I would like to install the latest version of rsync - rsync-3.1.2,
rsync-3.0.9 is on system, installed when installing mariadb with yum,
# rpm -qa |grep rsync
rsync-3.0.9-17.el7.x86_64
removing rsync-3.0.9 first,
# yum remove rsync
rsync and mariadb were removed together,
then,
installing rsync-3.1.2 from source code,
# wget https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.2.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf rsync-3.1.2.tar.gz
# cd rsync-3.1.2
# ./configure
# make
# make install
then,
installing mariadb with yum again,
but rsync-3.0.9 will still be installed.
How can I solve the problem?
You can install rsync 3.1.2 from the Fedora 24 .rpm package:
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/24/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/r/rsync-3.1.2-2.fc24.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh rsync-3.1.2-2.fc24.x86_64.rpm
(but that question doesn't really belong to stackoverflow)
You can install rsync 3.1.2 from the gf-plus repo. Just follow the steps below:
Install the gf-release package.
sudo rpm -Uvh http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/gf/x86_64/gf-release-7-10.gf.el7.noarch.rpm
Upgrade rsync package from the gf-plus repo.
sudo yum install -y --enablerepo=gf-plus rsync
Check rsync version.
hash -r; rsync --version | awk 'NR==1 {print $3}'
If it prints 3.1.2, rsync is upgraded.
By default, only the gf repo is enabled, which claims that it "won't overwrite core distro packages". You can disable it:
sudo yum-config-manager --disable gf
(For command not found error, run sudo yum install -y yum-utils and try again.)
Or simply remove all the gf* repos by removing the gf-release package:
sudo yum remove -y gf-release
You either need to install all of your software using packages, or install all of your software from source. Trying to mix and match is going to lead to exactly the sort of problem you are experiencing here: the mariadb package has a dependency on rsync, but the package manager doesn't know anything about the files you have installed from source.
The correct way to solve this problem is to build your own rsync package that can then be installed with yum. You can start with the source package for your distribution and then modify it for 3.1.2. You may be able to utilize a more recent package (e.g., from Fedora) and rebuild it for your system.
You can find the source RPM for rsync-3.0.9 here, and there is some documentation that will hopefully help you get started here.

Installing the libs3 on linux

Could someone pls give me a detailed procedure to intsall libs3 on LINUX? Just the procedure will do.
Thanks in advance.
These are the instructions to install libs3 on centos on a 64 bit machine.
According to their README, you are supposed to build an rpm package out of their source code using 'rpmbuild -ta '
1.) So first, install rpmbuild if it isn't installed already. [My install location is the default one: ~/rpmbuild]
2.) Clone libs3.
git clone https://github.com/bji/libs3.git
3.) Rename folder as libs3-trunk [rpmbuild complained if its name wasn't that, so...], create a tar.gz, copy it to SOURCES folder inside rpmbuild directory.
mv libs3 libs3-trunk
tar -zcvf libs3-trunk.tar.gz libs3-trunk/
mv libs3-trunk.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
4.) Build the rpm
rpmbuild -ta libs3-trunk.tar.gz
cd ../RPMS/x86_64
5.) Install dependency libs3-2-2.0-5.1.x86_64.rpm from
[http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/21900926/dir/centos_6/com/libs3-2-2.0-5.1.x86_64.rpm.html] OR [ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/dalgaaf:/ceph:/extra/CentOS_CentOS-6/x86_64/libs3-2-2.0-5.1.x86_64.rpm]
6.) Install the rpm:
Execute following as sudo:
rpm -Uvh libs3-2-2.0-5.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --replacefiles libs3-trunk-1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh libs3-devel-trunk-1.x86_64.rpm
7.) Install libcurl-devel/libxml2-devel through yum if you get following error:
make: curl-config: Command not found
make: xml2-config: Command not found
sudo yum install libcurl-devel.x86_64
sudo yum install libxml2-devel.x86_64
For ubuntu versions >=14.04, libs3-dev is available as an Ubuntu package.
So you just need to run:
sudo apt-get install libs3-dev

Compiling VIM with breakindent patch

In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise the only way to get breakindent patch working in VIM seems to be compiling VIM itself after patching it. Here's what I've done:
Install pbuilder and create local environment
sudo apt-get install pbuilder debootstrap
sudo pbuilder create --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd
Get the sources
sudo apt-get source vim
Patch them with breakindent patch retrieved from the official repo
cd vim-7.3.429
patch -p1 < vim-breakindent.patch
sudo pbuilder build vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.1.dsc
Pbuilder correctly generates deb packages but, after installing them, no breakindent option is available:
:set bri
E518: Unknown option: bri
Where's the mistake?
Thank you
pbuilder is still using the unmodified .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, and .debian.tar.gz to build the package. Applying the patch to your local copy doesn't help.
You should probably add the patch to debian/patches/ and debian/patches/series, bump the local version number in debian/changelog (debchange can help), and re-make the source archive (something like dpkg-buildpackage -S).
Update: it worked following some more steps.
After apt-get source:
cd vim-7.3.429
sudo chmod u=rw,g=r,o=r ../vim-breakindent.patch
sudo cp ../vim-breakindent.patch debian/patches/debian/.
added one new entry in debian/changelog, bumping version from vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.1 to vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2
added debian/vim-breakindent.patch at the end of debian/patches/series
generate new source package:
sudo pdebuild
compile the new .dsc:
sudo pbuilder build vim_7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2.dsc
install new debs:
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/*.deb

Boost Installation

I have a question regarding the installation of the boost libraries. Is there a package that I can use the sudo apt-get install to install this package. I searched all of the questions in this forum and using the commands sudo apt-get install libboost1.40-dev I cannot install theh package with this. Also, I can download it from boost.org but I do not know the correct path to install it too. I would prefer to install it using the sudo apt-get install commands if possible. I am using Ubuntu 9.04.
Thanks.
If you want to run with the latest version, you can do the bjam install as mentioned by Ralf, but I suggest you build a 'pseudo' package so you can
uninstall it safely
prevent/notice conflicts with official/existing boost packages.
Here is how to do that:
mkdir -pv /tmp/boostinst
cd /tmp/boostinst/
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.66.0/boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2/download'
tar xf download
cd boost_1_66_0/
./bootstrap.sh --help
./bootstrap.sh --show-libraries
./bootstrap.sh
checkinstall ./b2 install
On new boost version there is other way:
sudo apt-get update
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.50.0/boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2/download'
tar xf download
cd boost_1_50_0
./bootstrap.sh
./b2 install
You can use command aptitude search libboost to see list of the availiable boost libraries. The last version of boost is 1.42 - maybe that's why you can't find version 1.40.
If aptitude search command don't give you sufficient results, try sudo aptitude update and then run aptitude search again.
On my version of Ubuntu (10.04) it's libboost1.40-all-dev
On your version you've probably got an older version of boost, you should just be able to tab-complete to see which version you can install.
In any case what I usually do under Ubuntu is
sudo apt-get install bjam
Extract the downloaded boost archive to your hard-drive and then cd into the root and
sudo bjam install
This way you can get the newest version of boost, and not the slightly outdated one that is available for your Ubuntu version.
This is a link which explain step by step on how to install it (give it some time read!)
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
but your inline shell command might be the simple and easy way for doing it

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