Igor pointed me to ChunkHost’s free Beta recently, so I signed up.
First and foremost, I have no known affiliation with any related to ChunkHost.
Secondly, my first impression of ChunckHost was great – the signup and automation was completely fluid. It was very easy to signup and receive root to a freshly minted Ubuntu 8.04. All I had to do was put in my account information and then click sign-up and root was emailed to me within minutes. +1 ChunkHost.
I decided to write this blog partly about them. One reason is because of the swift and smooth customer experience. The other reason is because my steps to install git might be different than yours because of the vendors Virtual machine.
The first thing I wanted to do as I christen the server was to install git from source. These are the steps I did to complete that task:
1 | root@roder:~# apt-get update |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | root@roder:~# apt-get upgrade root@roder:~# apt-get install build-essential root@roder:~# apt-get install wget root@roder:~# wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.3.tar.bz2 root@roder:~# tar -xjf git-1.6.3.3.tar.bz2 |
1 | root@roder:~# cd git-1.6.3.3/ |
Now I have the latest source it’s time to compile it.
1 | root@roder:~/git-1.6.3.3# ./configure |
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1 | root@roder:~/git-1.6.3.3# ./make |
At this point I had an issue where I received this error:
1 | 'Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION' undeclared here (not in a function) |
I realized after reading a forum thread I figured I needed to do this:
1 | root@roder:~/git-1.6.3.3# apt-get build-deps git-core |
For good measure, I built openssl after reading through of that thread.
1 | root@roder:~/git-1.6.3.3# apt-get install openssl |
Then I was able to make
1 | root@roder:~/git-1.6.3.3# make && make install |
Success. If you have questions or tips, please post them. I hope this helps!
