Mercurial over Git no success

Hello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currently running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be anywhere better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, that I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual:

./configure make make install

Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:

cannot find zlib.h

Pls advise. David.

apt-get install git-core git-gui gitk

would be a good starting point

See you

Frederic

-----Original Message-----
From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org on behalf of david@davidwbrown.name
Sent: Mon 2/14/2011 10:01 PM
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Mercurial over Git no success
 
Hello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currently running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be anywhere better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, that I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual:

./configure make make install

Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:

cannot find zlib.h

Pls advise. David.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM,  <david@davidwbrown.name> wrote:

why not simply install the version of git that comes with ubuntu? `sudo apt-get install git` should do the trick ...

there's the problem. the zlib compression libraries are missing on your system. you'd have to install them first: `sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev`, but you are probably missing some more libraries necessary to compile git

hope that helps, daniel

On 11-02-14 04:26 PM, knittl wrote:

If you'd like to use git's latest release, before it gets included into an Ubuntu release, you can use this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa

Add it with the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

Then, sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install git

According to the Install-section in the Pro Git book, you have to install some other libraries. See http://progit.org/book/ch1-4.html

Manuel

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:01,  <david@davidwbrown.name> wrote:

From the INSTALL file:

 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
   programs and libraries.  Git can be used without most of them by adding
   the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
   config.mak file.

        - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.

       ...

Per suggestions already made, on ubuntu apt-cache search and apt-cache get are your friends.

jon.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Manuel Doninger <manuel.doninger@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 02/14/2011 05:19 PM, Jon Seymour wrote:

It would be quite appropriate then for git's configure script to *fail* if zlib and zlib headers are not present. The OP would have known what was wrong much earlier (and likely with a more useful error message) if that had happened.