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Update Centos 6.4 guide to obtain git via RPM instead of compilation
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Distribution : CentOS 6.4
GitLab version : 6.0
GitLab version : 6.0 - 6.2
Web Server : Apache, Nginx
Init system : sysvinit
Database : MySQL, PostgreSQL
Contributors : @nielsbasjes, @axilleas, @mairin, @ponsjuh, @yorn
Additional Notes : In order to get the latest git version we build it from source
Contributors : @nielsbasjes, @axilleas, @mairin, @ponsjuh, @yorn, @psftw
Additional Notes : In order to get a proper Ruby setup we build it from source
```

## Overview
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**Note:** Don't mind the `x86_64`, if you install on a i686 system you can use the same commands.

Verify that the EPEL repository is enabled as shown below. Now, you’ll see epel
repository (apart from the standard base, updates and extras repositories):
### Add PUIAS Computational repository

The [PUIAS Computational][PUIAS] repository is a part of [PUIAS/Springdale Linux][SDL],
a custom Red Hat® distribution maintained by [Princeton University][PU] and the
[Institute for Advanced Study][IAS]. We take advantage of the PUIAS
Computational repository to obtain a git v1.8.x package since the base CentOS
repositories only provide v1.7.1 which is not compatible with GitLab.

Install the PUIAS Computational repository rpm

sudo rpm -Uvh http://puias.math.ias.edu/data/puias/6/x86_64/os/Packages/springdale-computational-6-2.sdl6.10.noarch.rpmo

Verify that the EPEL and PUIAS Computational repositories are enabled as shown below:

sudo yum repolist
repo id repo name status
base CentOS-6 - Base 4,802
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 7,879
extras CentOS-6 - Extras 12
updates CentOS-6 - Updates 814
repolist: 13,507
repo id repo name status
PUIAS_6_computational PUIAS computational Base 6 - x86_64 2,018
base CentOS-6 - Base 4,802
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 7,879
extras CentOS-6 - Extras 12
updates CentOS-6 - Updates 814
repolist: 15,525

If you can't see it listed, use the folowing command to enable it:
If you can't see them listed, use the folowing command (from yum-utils package) to enable them:

sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel
sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel --enable PUIAS_6_computational

### Install the required tools for GitLab

su -
yum -y update
yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'

### 'Additional Development'
yum -y install vim-enhanced readline readline-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel glibc-devel tcl-devel openssl-devel curl-devel expat-devel db4-devel byacc sqlite-devel gcc-c++ libyaml libyaml-devel libffi libffi-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel libicu libicu-devel system-config-firewall-tui python-devel redis sudo wget crontabs logwatch logrotate perl-Time-HiRes
yum -y install vim-enhanced readline readline-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel glibc-devel tcl-devel openssl-devel curl-devel expat-devel db4-devel byacc sqlite-devel gcc-c++ libyaml libyaml-devel libffi libffi-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel libicu libicu-devel system-config-firewall-tui python-devel redis sudo wget crontabs logwatch logrotate perl-Time-HiRes git

**RHEL Notes**

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Tip taken from [here](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/issues/62).

### Git

GitLab will only work correctly with git version 1.8.x or newer. The problem is
that the available rpms for CentOS stop at git 1.7.1 which is too old for GitLab.
In order to update, you have to build git from source as it is not yet in any repository:

su -
cd /tmp
yum -y install git perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
git clone git://github.com/git/git.git
cd /tmp/git/
git checkout v1.8.3.4
autoconf
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make && make install
rm -rf /tmp/git/
yum erase git

Logout and login again for the `$PATH` to take effect. Check that git is properly
installed with:

which git
# /usr/local/bin/git
git --version
# git version 1.8.3.4

### Configure redis
Make sure redis is started on boot:

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# Replace your_domain_name with the fully-qualified domain name of your host serving GitLab
sed -i 's|localhost|your_domain_name|g' config/gitlab.yml
# Change git's path to point to /usr/local/bin/git
sed -i 's|/usr/bin/git|/usr/local/bin/git|' config/gitlab.yml
# Make sure GitLab can write to the log/ and tmp/ directories
chown -R git log/
chown -R git tmp/
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## Links used in this guide

- [EPEL information](http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/06/enable-epel-repository/)
- [git update to 1.8.x](http://www.pickysysadmin.ca/2013/05/21/commit-comments-not-appearing-in-gitlab-on-centos/)
- [SELinux booleans](http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/SelinuxBooleans)


[EPEL]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
[PUIAS]: https://puias.math.ias.edu/wiki/YumRepositories6#Computational
[SDL]: https://puias.math.ias.edu
[PU]: http://www.princeton.edu/
[IAS]: http://www.ias.edu/
[keys]: https://fedoraproject.org/keys
[sudo]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257616/sudo-changes-path-why

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