I'm a newbie to Linux (that mainly uses Windows and Mac OS X) needing some advice.
I was trying to install git on a Linux machine today, and encountered some problems:
Not knowing the version of the installed OS, I've opened the /proc/version file which said:
Linux version 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp (
[email protected])
(gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 17:57:31
EDT 2006
Then, as written in the git documents (http://git-scm.com/download/linux), I assumed I could use the yum install git command for Fedora, but got the following result.
[root@myserver ~]# yum install git
-bash: yum: command not found
So I tried
installing yum using wget, but wasn't so lucky.
[root@myserver ~]# wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-2.0.7.tar.gz
-bash: wget: command not found
I googled and found this page and this page, so tried
installing yum with rpm, but only got a result full of question marks. (Possibly an encoding problem, hmm...)
[root@myserver ~]# rpm -Uvh http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/wget-1.10.2-0.40E.x86_64.rpm
http://www.eomy.net/linux/install-yum-x86_64/wget-1.10.2-0.40E.x86_64.rpm(??)?? ??????
?: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.TbuAOu: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821
???.. ########################################### [100%]
wget-1.10.2-0.40E U???????g???????
wget-1.10.2-0.40E???? ??g??/usr/bin/wget ?? wget-1.10.2-0.40E U?????? ????
wget-1.10.2-0.40E???? ??g??/usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz ?? wget-1.10.2-0.40E U?????? ????
[root@myserver ~]#
Finally, when I typed rpm --version in the terminal, I got the below results.
[root@myserver ~]# rpm --version
RPM ???? - 4.3.3
I would like to know what I can do or possibly try now.
Is it not possible to wget or yum anything in my situation?
Or is there any magical tool like homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) that I can use?
Any comments or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
