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GeekTantra
Asked: 2010-02-27 11:01:03 +0800 CST

Installing git in Fedora Core 8

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I have a very annoying problem with fedora core 8. I am not able to install git it gives this error every time I do a yum install git-core

Error: Missing Dependency: libcurl.so.3 is needed by package git

There seems to be no way of resolving this dependency as FC8 has libcurl.so.4 by default and git doesn't seem to have any version that supports this version of libcurl.

Any help on how to get git installed in FC8 is appreciated.

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2 Answers

  1. You should be able to kludge this by making a symlink for the missing dependency:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3

    However, you may well get more of these dependency issues trying to install newer packages such as Git on such an old version of Fedora Core. Are you unable to upgrade ?

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  2. You could also try to download the source rpm and rebuild with rpmbuild --rebuild git-*.src.rpm.

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