cPanel runs on CentOS and installing git on CentOS is easy right? Wrong.

cPanel has to exclude a lot of the perl packages so they don’t mess with it’s mojo. So trying to install it looks like this:

[email protected] [~]# yum install git
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package git.x86_64 0:1.7.1-3.el6_4.1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl-Git = 1.7.1-3.el6_4.1 for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Git) for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Error) for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 (updates)
Requires: perl-Git = 1.7.1-3.el6_4.1
Error: Package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 (updates)
Requires: perl(Error)
Error: Package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 (updates)
Requires: perl(Git)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
frontpage-2002-SR1.2.i386 has missing requires of libexpat.so.0

Fear it!

However the solution is simple – it’s already installed! (as of cPanel 11.36)

Just run:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/git

if you want to add it to your path you can symlink it using something like this:

ln -s /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/git /usr/bin/git

Too easy! Thanks for stopping by.