shiningthrough

Installing Git on PPC Mac OS X Leopard

20 December 2010

I had previously used the installer git-osx-installer to install Git 1.6.5.1 on my PPC Mac Mini Server, running Leopard 10.5.8. Unfortunately all installers since then are intel specific, so I thought I would install it from source.

Download the source from here.

Open the Terminal application, and enter the following commands.

cd ~/Downloads

tar -xjf git-1.7.3.4.tar.bz2

cd git-1.7.3.4

make prefix=/usr/local

sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

Then restart your session, and check you have the correct version with:

git --version

Comments

Adam

I would highly recommend using homebrew to install git: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ It makes it real easy-peasy! Homebrew is cool because the "packages" are easy-to-read ruby files: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/git.rb Also, since you are using a Mac, you get access to the awesomeness of GitX: http://brotherbard.com/blog/2010/11/experimental-gitx-update-4/ This experimental branch of gitx is waaaay sweet, and has a great UI. Enjoy!

shiningthrough

Thanks for the info Adam, I will certainly checkout homebrew.

Jon

Thanks for the easy to follow instructions, was just thinking that I was going to be stuck on git 1.6.5. Got the current version running nicely now and upgraded to the experimental GitX too :)