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Commit 4c61538b820953c4cf72fd1502d9eae42ffbf042

Authored by Jacob Vosmaer
1 parent 1a923fe0
Exists in master and in 4 other branches 6-8-stable, 7-0-stable, 7-0-stable-spb, spb-stable

Add instructions to install Git from source 

This is needed for Ubuntu 12.04, which only provides Git 1.7.9.
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doc/install/installation.md
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... ... @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ If you are not familiar with vim please skip this and keep using the default edi
52 52  
53 53 Install the required packages:
54 54  
55   - sudo apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev curl git-core openssh-server redis-server checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev logrotate
  55 + sudo apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev curl openssh-server redis-server checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev logrotate
56 56  
57 57 Make sure you have the right version of Python installed.
58 58  
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74 74 # For reStructuredText markup language support install required package:
75 75 sudo apt-get install -y python-docutils
76 76  
  77 +Make sure you have the right version of Git installed
  78 +
  79 + # Install Git
  80 + sudo apt-get install -y git-core
  81 +
  82 + # Make sure Git is version 1.7.10 or higher
  83 + git --version
  84 +
  85 + # System packaged Git too old? Remove it and compile from source.
  86 +
  87 + # Remove packaged Git
  88 + sudo apt-get remove git-core
  89 +
  90 + # Install dependencies
  91 + sudo apt-get install -y libexpat1-dev gettext
  92 +
  93 + # Download and compile from source
  94 + cd /tmp
  95 + curl --progress https://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.8.4.1.tar.gz | tar xz
  96 + cd git-1.8.4.1/
  97 + make prefix=/usr/local all
  98 +
  99 + # Install into /usr/local/bin
  100 + sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
  101 +
  102 + # Create a symlink for GitLab
  103 + sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/git /usr/bin/git
  104 +
77 105 **Note:** In order to receive mail notifications, make sure to install a
78 106 mail server. By default, Debian is shipped with exim4 whereas Ubuntu
79 107 does not ship with one. The recommended mail server is postfix and you can install it with:
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