Hello, I have searched the internet and can find no answer to my dilemma. I am trying to install a local copy of git on a Linux machine that is not connected to the internet and I don't have root privileges on. I can download and transfer things to this machine, but that is it. I think this should be possible, but have had no luck with the things I have tried. Thanks you for any advice. Regards Jordan
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Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.
Subject: Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.
Pratyush YadavRe: Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.
On 08/04/20 08:12AM, Jordan wrote:
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> Hello, > I have searched the internet and can find no answer to my dilemma. I am > trying to install a local copy of git on a Linux machine that is not > connected to the internet and I don't have root privileges on. I can > download and transfer things to this machine, but that is it. I think this > should be possible, but have had no luck with the things I have tried. > Thanks you for any advice.
Are you able to build Git from source? Do you have all the dependencies already installed? If so, I have sometimes used the Git binary in the build folder when testing a new feature I was working on because I didn't want to install an unstable version on my system. It worked fine for the most part, though I admit I didn't really use a whole lot of things other than commit and some worktree commands. Maybe something like that would work for you? You can download a tarball from kernel.org [0].
If you can't, maybe you can try building Git on a machine you _do_ have internet and root access on, and then copy over the binaries? Again, I haven't played around a whole lot with something like this so I can't say if it'll work. Something to try I guess.
[0] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
-- Regards, Pratyush Yadav
RE: Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.
Hello Pratyush, Thanks for the reply. I was able to build it from a tarball, but it was certainly not straightforward. After a failed attempt and more research I came to the following that works. $ tar -zxf git-2.9.4.tar.gz $ cd git-2.9.4 $ make configure $ ./configure --prefix=/ <my directory> $ make && make install
Regards, Jordan
-----Original Message----- From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:08 AM To: Jordan <jordan.az@samsung.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Installing git questions I can't find an answer to.
On 08/04/20 08:12AM, Jordan wrote:
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> Hello, > I have searched the internet and can find no answer to my dilemma. I > am trying to install a local copy of git on a Linux machine that is > not connected to the internet and I don't have root privileges on. I > can download and transfer things to this machine, but that is it. I > think this should be possible, but have had no luck with the things I have
tried.
> Thanks you for any advice.
Are you able to build Git from source? Do you have all the dependencies already installed? If so, I have sometimes used the Git binary in the build folder when testing a new feature I was working on because I didn't want to install an unstable version on my system. It worked fine for the most part, though I admit I didn't really use a whole lot of things other than commit and some worktree commands. Maybe something like that would work for you? You can download a tarball from kernel.org [0].
If you can't, maybe you can try building Git on a machine you _do_ have internet and root access on, and then copy over the binaries? Again, I haven't played around a whole lot with something like this so I can't say if it'll work. Something to try I guess.
[0] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
-- Regards, Pratyush Yadav