Installing Git with non-root user account

I've already set up a Git repository on GitHub and committed a few changes from my Windows machine.

But tomorrow I'll have to work in this repository from a machine running Ubuntu with limited privilege (i.e. no sudo).

Is there a portable version of Git for Linux? Or some source that allows me to compile and install Git only for the current user?

Solution 1:

You can download the git source and do ./configure --prefix=/home/user/myroot && make && make install to install git to your home directory provided you have the build tools. If you don't have the build-essential package installed (dpkg --list|grep build-essential), you will need to install those to your home directory as well.

Solution 2:

I don't like link-only answers, but this link I followed step-by-step on a Fedora machine and it worked without modification. Very, very easy. The binaries end up in your ~/bin directory. You download a tarball, extract the sources, run make and run make install and that is it.

As the author states, the 2 prerequisites are gcc and ssh and if you meet these git should work for you as a non-root user.

Solution 3:

This is what I ended up doing, the main trick being the make flags:

wget -O git.tar.gz https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.17.0.tar.gz
tar zxf git.tar.gz
mv git-2.17.0 git
cd git
make configure
./configure --prefix=`pwd` --with-curl --with-expat
# ./configure --prefix=`pwd`
# Make flags from https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD2gKTourXUdB_9_FZ3AEECTDc1Fx1NFKzeaTZDWHC3jxA@mail.gmail.com/
make NO_GETTEXT=Nope NO_TCLTK=Nope
make install NO_GETTEXT=Nope NO_TCLTK=Nope

Credits:

79E09796's answer above was a good tip, but didn't work for my case on Cloudways and did not require compiling curl and expat.
A random email record I found on the internet: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD2gKTourXUdB_9_FZ3AEECTDc1Fx1NFKzeaTZDWHC3jxA@mail.gmail.com/

Solution 4:

A related answer is https://askubuntu.com/a/350.

I could get it work with the third method proposed:

apt-get source git
cd git_vXXX
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

I don't know why, but when I had tried to install from the source download from github instead, I had a lot of problems with missing dependencies

Solution 5:

To install git and dependencies from source the following maybe useful.

Replace with the location you are installing your non-root apps and consider checking for latest versions of source code.

wget https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.47.1.tar.gz
tar -xf curl-7.47.1.tar.gz
mkdir <local_curl_dir>
cd curl-7.47.1
./configure --prefix=<local_curl_dir>
make
make install

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
tar -xf expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
mkdir <local_expat_dir>
cd expat-2.1.0
./configure --prefix=<local_expat_dir>
make
make install

wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.6.4.tar.gz
tar -xf v2.6.4
mkdir <local_git_dir>
cd git-2.6.4
make configure
./configure --prefix=<local_git_dir>/git --with-curl=<local_curl_dir>/curl --with-expat=<local_expat_dir>/expat
make
make install