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Asked: 2011-07-08 06:47:24 +0800 CST

Couldn't find package gitolite on Ubuntu 10.04

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I've been following this tutorial and I'm stuck on

sudo apt-get install gitolite

with the error

Couldn't find package gitolite

I've been Googling around for a while now, no one else seems to have this problem so it's probably a trivial matter... I'm not sure if it's a line in /etc/apt/sources.list I need to add, or if the package just isn't available for Ubuntu 10.04.

How do I fix the fact that it can't find the package?

ubuntu packages apt gitolite ubuntu-10.04

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Maybe it would be simpler to simply grab the source on GitHub:

    git clone git://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
# or
git clone https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite.git

    (like this tutorial explains, also detailed in the official Gitolite Installation page)
    There were already previous issues with apt-get install gitolite, like in this thread.

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  2. It seems only available from Ubuntu 10.10. You can get the source with git clone and install it.

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  3. How do I fix the fact that it can't find the package?

    Gitolite is only available as package since Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gitolite

    Like @VonC suggested, installing from Git / source is the way. Here's another link: http://eugenkiss.com/blog/2010/installing-redmine-gitolite-ubuntu-10.04/

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  4. I strongly recommend going to the original source of gitolite on github and installing it from there.
    Also you should really consider creating a separate user for git/gitolite
    This is the official install document : http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/doc/1-INSTALL.html
    The same install document links to another excellent tutorial for installing gitoliste as non-root user, which I suggest you to follow http://sites.google.com/site/senawario/home/gitolite-tutorial

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