Error installing git on CentOS 6

Question

After I run yum install git

it shows the error

Error: Package: git-1.7.6.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
       Requires: libcurl.so.3
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Do I need to install libcurl.so.3 or download git from the web and install?

Answer 1

You should install curl, since it is listed as a direct dependency for git (alongside openssl-1.0.0d, libssh2, libiconv, libintl, libidn, expat and zlib)

Make sure it is a curl 7.21.7, because the previous one was broken for any ssh access.

As Keith mentions (+1), you need curl-devel. There is only a libcurl-devel-7.19.7-16.el6.i686.rpm package which could be old enough for ssh to still work.

Answer 2

I don't think installing the curl package installs libcurl.so.3. The curl package provides the curl program and associated files, not the library.

For Centos, the package you need is probably called something like curl-devel.

I'm a surprised yum didn't offer to install the dependencies for you. On CentOS 5.6, the yum man page says that yum install "Is used to install the latest version of a package or group of packages while ensuring that all dependencies are satisfied". I suppose it's possible that the dependencies aren't configured correctly, but that seems unlikely for something as popular as git.

Try yum install curl-devel followed by yum install git.

Answer 3

libcurl.so.3 does come from curl package.

rpm -qf libcurl.so.3.0.0
curl-7.15.5-9.el5_6.2

I created a symbolic link on my system under /usr/lib64.

libcurl.so.3 -> libcurl.so.4.1.1

Answer 4

The problem is that you are trying to install the el5 version of git (git-1.7.6.1-1.el5.rf.i386). I had the same issue as described here.

I fixed it by enabling the rpmforge extras and it picked up el6 of git (then could just yum install)

I'm sure this is an issue with the centos default repos, I mean it should install el6 by default?

Answer 5

First off, under root, at /etc/yum.conf edit the file, and comment out the exclude line with a leading ; i.e. ;exclude (I use WinSCP at http://winscp.net to log in as it has a built-in modified notepad editor, along with PuTTY for SSH access.)

After reading the above about installing curl-devel, it didn't work for me. But yum reinstall curl-devel worked. I then followed that up with yum install git, and it proceeded to install git and 2 additional needed files.

Answer 6

I tried

$ yum install git-all.noarch which doesn't depend on architectures.

Answer 7

Git is included with the EL6 base repository; it's not necessary to install another repository to get access to it.

In the case of the original question, it looks like you are trying to use the rpmforge repo for EL5 on an EL6 system. Your best bet here is to fix or remove the repo from /etc/yum.repos.d.

Answer 8

I had the same problem under CentOS 6.3. Running yum provides git gave me two choices:

 git-1.7.1-2.el6_0.1.x86_64 : Fast Version Control System
 git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.x86_64 : Fast Version Control System

So, I did a yum install git-1.7.1-2.el6_0.1.x86_64 and it installed the .el6 version of git, along with perl-Error and perl-Git, and issues no errors and NO missing libcurl.so.3 files!