Install git package on Debian, could not run git

hce

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Aug 20, 2008, 2:50:13 AM8/20/08

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Hi,

I installed git, git-core and cogito in Debian according to following
message, but still could not run git (in both user and root). What
could I be missing here?

git, the filemanager with GNU Interactive Tools, is now called gitfm.

If you are looking for git, Linus Torvald's content tracker, install
the cogito and git-core packages and see README.Debian and git(7).

This transition script will be removed in the debian stable
release after etch.

If you wish to complete the transition early, install git-core
and use (as root):
update-alternatives --config git

Press RETURN to run gitfm

GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (i586-pc-linux-gnu), 10:15:20 Aug 21 2006
GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Tudor Hulubei and Andrei Pitis, Bucharest, Romania

/usr/bin/gitfm: fatal error: `chdir' failed: permission denied.

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Tzafrir Cohen

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Aug 20, 2008, 3:30:21 AM8/20/08

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:47:27PM +1000, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed git, git-core and cogito in Debian according to following
> message, but still could not run git (in both user and root). What
> could I be missing here?

Are those the Etch packages? I tried to use use them and had many
problems. The answer to most of the issues was: "git 1.4.x is obsolete.
Use backports".

Johannes Wiedersich

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Aug 20, 2008, 4:40:09 AM8/20/08

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On 08/20/2008 08:47 AM, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed git, git-core and cogito in Debian according to following
> message, but still could not run git (in both user and root). What
> could I be missing here?

From the message you post, it appears that there are two different
programs that might be called 'git' on your system:

10:22:11-johannes@e13-v21:~$ aptitude search gnuit
p gnuit
- GNU Interactive Tools, a file browser/viewer and process viewer/
10:24:24-johannes@e13-v21:~$ aptitude search git-core
i git-core
- fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

Which one would you like to run?

Either uninstall the other one (if you don't need it)

> git, the filemanager with GNU Interactive Tools, is now called gitfm.
>
> If you are looking for git, Linus Torvald's content tracker, install
> the cogito and git-core packages and see README.Debian and git(7).
>
> This transition script will be removed in the debian stable
> release after etch.
>
> If you wish to complete the transition early, install git-core
> and use (as root):
> update-alternatives --config git

or run above command to choose which application you'd like to call git
on your system.

HTH,

Johannes

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hce

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Aug 20, 2008, 7:40:18 AM8/20/08

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On 8/20/08, Johannes Wiedersich <joha...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
> On 08/20/2008 08:47 AM, hce wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed git, git-core and cogito in Debian according to following
> > message, but still could not run git (in both user and root). What
> > could I be missing here?
>
>
> From the message you post, it appears that there are two different
> programs that might be called 'git' on your system:
>
> 10:22:11-johannes@e13-v21:~$ aptitude search gnuit
> p gnuit
> - GNU Interactive Tools, a file browser/viewer and process viewer/
> 10:24:24-johannes@e13-v21:~$ aptitude search git-core
> i git-core
> - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
>
> Which one would you like to run?

$ aptitude search gnuit

$ aptitude search git-core
i git-core - content addressable filesystem

> Either uninstall the other one (if you don't need it)

Seems only git-core is installed, right?

> > git, the filemanager with GNU Interactive Tools, is now called gitfm.
> >
> > If you are looking for git, Linus Torvald's content tracker, install
> > the cogito and git-core packages and see README.Debian and git(7).
> >
> > This transition script will be removed in the debian stable
> > release after etch.
> >
> > If you wish to complete the transition early, install git-core
> > and use (as root):
> > update-alternatives --config git
>
>
> or run above command to choose which application you'd like to call git
> on your system.

Yes, I did run:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config git

There are 2 alternatives which provide `git'.

Selection Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1 /usr/bin/git.transition
2 /usr/bin/git-scm

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 1
Using `/usr/bin/git.transition' to provide `git'.

Is that a problem? Which one should I use, git-transition or git-scm?
Shoud I delete one of them?

> HTH,
>
>
> Johannes

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI

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Aug 20, 2008, 7:50:08 AM8/20/08

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hce wrote:
> Yes, I did run:
>
> $ sudo update-alternatives --config git
>
> There are 2 alternatives which provide `git'.
>
> Selection Alternative
> -----------------------------------------------
> *+ 1 /usr/bin/git.transition
> 2 /usr/bin/git-scm
>
> Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 1
> Using `/usr/bin/git.transition' to provide `git'.
>
> Is that a problem? Which one should I use, git-transition or git-scm?
> Shoud I delete one of them?
>

I'm assuming you want the 'git' for version control. In this case,
option 2 seems promising: scm is something like Source Code Management.

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improvements."
-- Donald J. Atwood, General Motors

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Daniel Burrows

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Aug 20, 2008, 11:20:20 AM8/20/08

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:32:29PM +1000, hce <webma...@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> On 8/20/08, Johannes Wiedersich <joha...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
> > From the message you post, it appears that there are two different
> > programs that might be called 'git' on your system:
> >
> > 10:22:11-johannes@e13-v21:~$ aptitude search gnuit
> > p gnuit
> > - GNU Interactive Tools, a file browser/viewer and process viewer/
> > 10:24:24-johannes@e13-v21:~$ aptitude search git-core
> > i git-core
> > - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
> >
> > Which one would you like to run?
>
> $ aptitude search gnuit
>
> <shown nothing, does seem gnuit is installed>

If you're running etch, it's called "git". I think that you
mentioned installing it in your initial message...

Daniel

hce

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Aug 20, 2008, 8:30:12 PM8/20/08

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On 8/20/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edu...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
> hce wrote:
> > Yes, I did run:
> >
> > $ sudo update-alternatives --config git
> >
> > There are 2 alternatives which provide `git'.
> >
> > Selection Alternative
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > *+ 1 /usr/bin/git.transition
> > 2 /usr/bin/git-scm
> >
> > Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 1
> > Using `/usr/bin/git.transition' to provide `git'.
> >
> > Is that a problem? Which one should I use, git-transition or git-scm?
> > Shoud I delete one of them?
> >
>
>
> I'm assuming you want the 'git' for version control. In this case,
> option 2 seems promising: scm is something like Source Code Management.

Thanks. That works. It seems I installed too many git packages, should
I remove (purge) some packages which is not used? My root space is
also really tighten.

$ aptitude search git

i cogito - version control system
p digitaldj - An SQL based mp3 player front-end
p digitemp - Program to read from temperature
sensors ip digitools - A set of tools to
control ASUS Digimatrix
p engauge-digitizer - interactively extracts numbers
from bitmapp engauge-digitizer-doc - engauge-digitizer
user manual and tutoriali git - GNU
Interactive Tools, a file browser/viewp git-arch
- content addressable filesystem (arch interp git-completion
- content addressable filesystem (bash compli git-core
- content addressable filesystem
p git-cvs - content addressable filesystem
(cvs interop git-daemon-run - content addressable
filesystem (git-daemonp git-doc - content
addressable filesystem (documentatp git-email
- content addressable filesystem (email add-p git-load-dirs
- Import upstream archives into git
p git-svn - content addressable filesystem
(svn interop gitk - content addressable
filesystem (revision tp gitweb - content
addressable filesystem (web interfp jigit
- tools for working with jigdo files
p qgit - Qt application for viewing GIT trees
p stgit - provide quilt functionality on top of git
p xmms-singit - Display and edit lyrics with XMMS
p xserver-xorg-input-digitaledge - X.Org X server -- DigitalEdge input driver