Git command not found

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I had to install git from source on RHEL. After installation the git command is shown to be in /usr/local/bin/git when trying the whereis command.This path is available in $PATH also.

When I type git it still says "Command not found."
How to resolve this?

EDIT : output of various commands

$type git
type: Command not found.

$which git
git: Command not found.

$ls -l /usr/local/bin/git
-rwxr-xr-x 112 root users 5851488 Mar 15 20:07 /usr/local/bin/git

$whereis git
git: /usr/local/bin/git

$echo $PATH
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

EDIT: It works now but do not know why

I disconnected the telnet connection and logged in again few minutes back and find that the git command works. I am not sure what caused it to start working. This is confusing.

Best Answer

From the error messages you're using (t)csh. It would help to mention it in your question, especially as you're showing $ as your prompt, and that's traditionally a Bourne prompt, not a csh prompt.

type is a builtin in Bourne-style shell. It doesn't exist in csh. When you run type git, it tells you that the type command is not found.

Many shells keep information about the location of commands in the search path in a cache. I don't know if any version of csh caches negative lookups, but it seems that yours does. Run the command rehash to refresh the cache. When you start a new shell instance, it has a fresh cache and so doesn't remember that git was not present earlier.

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Since you're using CentOS 5, the default package manager is yum, not apt-get. To install a program using it, you'd normally use the following command:

$ sudo yum install <packagename>

However, when trying to install git this way, you'll encounter the following error on CentOS 5:

$ sudo yum install git
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This tells you that the package repositories that yum knows about don't contain the required rpms (RPM Package Manager files) to install git. This is presumably because CentOS 5 is based on RHEL 5, which was released in 2007, before git was considered a mature version control system. To get around this problem, we need to add additional repositories to the list that yum uses (We're going to add the RPMforge repository, as per these instructions).

This assumes you want the i386 packages. Test by running uname -i. If you want the x86_64 packages, replace all occurrences of i386 with x86_64 in the following commands

First, download the rpmforge-release package:

$ wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Next, verify and install the package:

$ sudo rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
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$ sudo rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

And now we should be able to install git:

$ sudo yum install git-gui

yum will work out the dependencies, and ask you at relevant points if you want to proceed. Press y for Yes, and n or return for No.

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