Package: git-1.7.6.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge) Requires: libcurl.so.3

Question

After I run yum install git

it shows the error

Error: Package: git-1.7.6.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
       Requires: libcurl.so.3
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Do I need to install libcurl.so.3 or download git from the web and install?

Solution 1

The problem is that you are trying to install the el5 version of git (git-1.7.6.1-1.el5.rf.i386). I had the same issue as described here.

I fixed it by enabling the rpmforge extras and it picked up el6 of git (then could just yum install)

I'm sure this is an issue with the centos default repos, I mean it should install el6 by default?

Solution 2

I had the same problem under CentOS 6.3. Running yum provides git gave me two choices:

 git-1.7.1-2.el6_0.1.x86_64 : Fast Version Control System
 git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.x86_64 : Fast Version Control System

So, I did a yum install git-1.7.1-2.el6_0.1.x86_64 and it installed the .el6 version of git, along with perl-Error and perl-Git, and issues no errors and NO missing libcurl.so.3 files!

Solution 3

I don't think installing the curl package installs libcurl.so.3. The curl package provides the curl program and associated files, not the library.

For Centos, the package you need is probably called something like curl-devel.

I'm a surprised yum didn't offer to install the dependencies for you. On CentOS 5.6, the yum man page says that yum install "Is used to install the latest version of a package or group of packages while ensuring that all dependencies are satisfied". I suppose it's possible that the dependencies aren't configured correctly, but that seems unlikely for something as popular as git.

Try yum install curl-devel followed by yum install git.

Solution 4

First off, under root, at /etc/yum.conf edit the file, and comment out the exclude line with a leading ; i.e. ;exclude (I use WinSCP at http://winscp.net to log in as it has a built-in modified notepad editor, along with PuTTY for SSH access.)

After reading the above about installing curl-devel, it didn't work for me. But yum reinstall curl-devel worked. I then followed that up with yum install git, and it proceeded to install git and 2 additional needed files.

Solution 5

I tried

$ yum install git-all.noarch which doesn't depend on architectures.

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Comments

[Admin]

I already installed crul, but it still shows the error

[VonC]

Agree, except I don't find very recent curl-devel rpm for CentOS6. +1

[bahamat]

This looks like it was intended to be a comment to Keith Thompson's answer.

[Avisek Chakraborty]

i have enabled it, also didarestart, but still its pointing to el5. Plz help

[Avisek Chakraborty]

ok. Norrad's answer worked

[Avisek Chakraborty]

worked for me too. Thanx

[Donny Kurnia]

Works for me in my client server