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Setting Git Remote for Ubuntu Dapper

January 18, 2009 by carmelyne

I love hosted git. I have a slice on slicehost that's not being fully utilized so I will install git on it and set it up as a Git Remote server.

My slice is a little old so it's running on the following stack primarily for rails:

That's a simple rails stack to run this blog on Mephisto 0.7.3.

As I was doing search for ways to set up git on Ubuntu Dapper, not very many came up, and most of them were for Ubuntu Intrepid. I found Installing git on your slicehost and managing it with gitosis as the closest candidate but it required Gitosis that required some Python dependencies. Clearly, I don't need another layer nor more dependencies just to set up git on my slice. Then a recommendation on the comment came up: Setting up a Git Server which is exactly what I was looking for. Then the latter blog post fell short of describing the necessary steps to install Git on Ubuntu Dapper.

Then I tried using the former blog post commands to install git:

The command above to build the dependencies for git-core just gave me 404s or "obsoletes" and that's most likely due to Dapper being a really old version. I've even updated my etc/apt/source/list. No such luck. It would just throw out:

Bad bad evil archive, I say.

That's where this post comes in so here we go:

If an error pops in while you're doing install git-core just apt-get install the missing little sucker dependencies individually and I think I ran onto 1 or two of them.

After you've successfully installed Git, run:

git --version

It should atleast say "git version 1.5.4.5". Ok, yay!

While logged in as a sudoer, create a new user and add the password.

sudo adduser git

Log out and log in as git.

While you're still logged in as a git user do:

Let's do out first commit:

Great! That's all we need as an alternative for a remote Git on your own slice.

On a side note, when the time comes, I will most likely do a clean install for the most recent Ubuntu on my slice and start over a Rails stack at which point I'd have to figure out how to move my Git remotes or how to handle that part. I'm sure it's not going to be a difficult. Cross fingers.