Suse Enterprise 11 SP2 how to install git

linux git suse
Brade picture Brade · Jun 8, 2012 · Viewed 63.1k times · Source

I've never had a problem installing git on any Linux distro, but now I'm forced to use a client's server which is SLES 11 SP2. It uses yast or zypper to do package management, which I've never used before. Apparently I should be able to zypper install git-core but that doesn't work because it needs a certain repo added. Of course none of this is on the official git installation page here.

I found what packages belong to the SLE11-SP2-SDK repo here. But no instructions on how to add the repo to yast or zypper.

I'll also accept an answer that simply tells me how to install git on a SLES server. I've already tried from source, but of course it's missing requirements which also belong to the SDK repo.

This is what I get when I do "zypper install git-core":

$ sudo zypper install git-core

Refreshing service 'nu_novell_com'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'git-core' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'git-core' found.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.

Answer

Brade picture Brade · Jun 8, 2012

I figured it out, only by piecing together other info mainly from the OpenSUSE project. Basically it's:

$ sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/scm/SLE_11_SP2/devel:tools:scm.repo
$ sudo zypper install git-core

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