I am trying to install git on a SUSE linux server that, to all intents and purposes, doesn't have internet access. It would appear that I also need to install some dependencies for git.
Is there a straightforward way of creating a package that contains git along with all its dependencies on another machine that I can the copy over to this server to install from?
Just download git.tar.gz unpack-configure-compile
Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding the approriate "NO_=YesPlease" to the make command line or config.mak file.
"zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
"ssh" is used to push and pull over the net.
A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull").
"Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p", interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can live without these, use NO_PERL.
"openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL. If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
By default, git uses OpenSSL for SHA1 but it will use it's own library (inspired by Mozilla's) with either NO_OPENSSL or BLK_SHA1. Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC (PPC_SHA1).
"libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch and git-fetch. You might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. If you do not use http:// or https:// repositories, you do not have to have them (use NO_CURL).
"expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional (with NO_EXPAT).
"wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the history graphically, and in git-gui. If you don't want gitk or git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK.
Please find below the Steps I followed to install Git without internet access on the system
Download the desired tarball from below link, on your PC/Laptop https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ I used the Git-2.8, as the customer requirement was to have version >= Git-2.74
Connect to remote Linux system (via winscp or nay other remote connectivity tool). And Place/Move the downloaded git-XXXXXX.tar.gz file on desired location on the linux system where you want to install ‘git’.
I placed it in Directory: /var/opt/teradata/packages/Package/GIT/
From command prompt go to the directory where you placed the above file and run below command to untar the package tar -xvzf git-2.8.0.tar.gz
CD into the directory that is newly created because of untar command above. cd git-2.8.0/
Verify that all the needed files and directories have been uncompressed into the above folder ls -ltr
Set the Path and Prefix variables with commands below.
PATH=$PATH:/var/opt/teradata/packages/Package/GIT/git-2.8.0/usr/bin
PATH=$PATH:/var/opt/teradata/packages/Package/GIT/git-2.8.0
export PATH=$PATH:/var/opt/teradata/packages/Package/GIT/git-2.8.0
make prefix=/usr/local/git all
echo $CC
Run Below command to check the preinstall configuration checks
./configure
Run Below command to install.
make install
Now see it work with below command
git --version
If you do not have direct access to the remote/online SLES zypper repositories, you can add SDK ISO as repository. Some packages are available in this ISO.
1) Download SLE-12-SP2-SDK-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso from https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=g3e7P21X6Lw~ (It requires sign-up). You can also find your desired ISO sdk at https://download.suse.com
2) Copy & transfer downloaded file to the SLES machine. (here we transfer it to /temp/SLE-12-SP2-SDK-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso)
3) Add ISO as Zypper repository
zypper ar iso:/?iso=/temp/SLE-12-SP2-SDK-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso sdk_dvd
4) install git
zypper install git-core
