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Installing Git on CentOS/RHEL servers

To install Git on a CentOS or RHEL server, follow these steps:

1. From your shell, install Git using yum (or dnf on older versions of Fedora):

$ sudo yum install git

Or:

$ sudo dnf install git  

2. Verify the installation was successful by typing the following command:

$ git --version  

3. Configure the username and email address for all repositories:

$ git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
$ git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"  

4. Install the necessary build dependencies using dnf (or yum on older versions of Fedora):

$ sudo dnf install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel asciidoc xmlto docbook2X  

Or using the yum-Epel repo:

$ sudo yum install ...