How To Install Git on Fedora Linux

Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system. It is designed to handle small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

This article will help you to install the latest Git client on Fedora Linux systems.

Method 1. Installing Git using DNF

The default Fedora repositories also contain the Git packages. But it contains an older version. You can use the following command to install the available git client on the Fedora system.

sudo dnf install git 

Method 2. Installing Latest Git from Source

1. Firstly we need to make sure that we have installed the required packages on your system. Use the following command to install all the required packages for source code compilation.

   sudo dnf install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker 
   

2. Now remove any prior installation of Git through RPM file or Yum package manager. If your older version is also compiled through source, then skip this step.

   yum remove git 
   

3. Download git source code from kernel git or simply use following command to download Git 2.0.5.

   cd /usr/src 
   wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.36.1.tar.gz 
   tar xzf git-2.36.1.tar.gz 
   

4. After downloading and extracting the Git source code, Use the following command to compile the source code.

   cd git-2.36.1 
   sudo make prefix=/usr/local/git all 
   sudo make prefix=/usr/local/git install 
   

5. Now, configure the PATH environment variable.

   echo "PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin" | sudo tee -a /etc/environment 
   source /etc/environment 
   

6. Once completing the above steps, you have successfully installed Git in your system. Let’s use the following command to check the git version

   git --version 
   
   git version 2.36.1
   

Conclusion

This tutorial helped you to install the latest Git client on the Fedora Linux system.