I would have written a guide on how I did this, but the blog post over on If Not True Then False covers it perfectly, so just go over there and follow their guide.
Installing Git on CentOS 5 cPanel
Following on from my previous post about installing Git on CentOS 4, CentOS 5 is a whole different story. This is because you actually can get the RPM for Git on Cent OS – but cPanel doesn’t make it quite easy enough to do it.
You see, cPanel likes to take control of a lot of it’s own stuff, so it has a long list of packages which it won’t update automatically, because it will end up breaking itself if it does. As Git has two dependencies from the Perl libraries, this causes a problem.
But we can easily fix that.
cd /etc/ vim yum.conf
Remove perl* from the exclude line, then save the file. Now you should be able to run the command.
yum install git
It will gather all the dependencies and install Git. Final step, go back into the YUM configuration and put the exclude pack in to protect cPanel from its malevolent self.
vim yum.conf
Installing Git on CentOS 4 cPanel
If you’re trying to install Git on CentOS with cPanel, you’ll probably be running into the problems where you can’t get hold the RPM because cPanel excludes all Perl modules. But that is a whole different problem to if you are running CentOS 4.
CentOS 4 doesn’t actually have the RPMs for Git at all. But luckily, it’s actually really easy to install on a cPanel server because cPanel should come will all the dependencies you need.
So, all you need to do is head over to the Git website, download the latest source (I tried it with v1.7.8.1) and compile it – no problems, no worries.
wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.8.1.tar.gz tar xvzf git-1.7.8.1.tar.gz cd git-1.7.8.1 ./configure make make install
Integrating SVN with Apache
If you want to allow access to SVN via Apache, it’s actually nice and easy to install and configure it on a blank system. First, install Apache.
yum install httpd httpd-devel httpd-manual
Next, install Subversion.
yum install subversion
Now we need to bridge he two.
yum install mod_dav_svn
Once you have done this, we have everything we need. So we can go ahead and edit the Subversion configuration to add the Subversion directory to Apache.
vim subversion.conf
Finally, start and reload Apache, then go about creating your SVN repository.