Git can be found in the EPEL (Fedora Project) complimentary packages repository. The command to install the package will be similar to the following
user@computer:$ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
Remember to sanity check this against your RHEL version…
Odd error when running yum update on my slice. This appears to be a currently outstanding bug which can be worked around by issuing a
user@computer:$ yum clean metadata
or
user@computer:$ yum clean all
The former worked fine for me. Original error shown below.
user@computer:$ yum updateSetting up Update ProcessResolving Dependencies–> Running transaction checkTraceback (most recent call last):File “/usr/bin/yum”, line [...]
One of the things about having your own little server, not really used for anything absolutely critical to anyone is that you can install updates as soon as you like. Non critical updates are one of those things that you have to do sooner or later and for non critical systems it can often be [...]