Installing a repo on a RHEL8 Linux host

Installing git with a tar ball downloaded from git website

# all commands running as root 

git --version 

yum install autoconf libcurl-devel expat-devel gcc gettext-devel kernel-headers openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel -y

git --version

wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.5.tar.gz

tar -xvzf  git-2.9.5.tar.gz -C /root

sudo mkdir /opt/git 

cd /root/git-2.9.5

./configure --prefix=/opt/git

# yum install make

make 

make install

cd /opt/git && ls -lrt  && cd /bin

./git --version

which git 

# yum remove git
# clear 
git --version 
# ./git --version

# creating softlink 
echo $PATH

ln -s /opt/git/bin/git /usr/bin/git

cd /bin && ls git* 

git --version

# End

visit the site www.git-scm.com and click on “Download” and then “Linux/Unix” and then download the tarball
the list has this latest tarball as of today — git-2.9.5.tar.gz
get the clean link out of out and using wget command get the tarball downloaded on the system —

using wget to download the git tarball from the website

installing make command in RHEL 8

check where is the default active git located using which command

Reference — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKS9H1gIdA