How to install git to red hat enterprise linux 5.3 x64?

Solution 1:

Use the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository. The easiest way to enable it is by installing the epel-release package. Here's how if you have RHEL 5 x86_64:

[root@localhost]# rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm
[root@localhost]# yum install git

Solution 2:

For a more up-to-date version of Git (1.7.2.3 at the time of this writing versus 1.5.5.6 in the EPEL repository), see Andrew Thompson's Webtatic repository:

http://www.webtatic.com/blog/2009/09/git-on-centos-5/