Installing GIT in Minix 3.1.8

[Joffrey Baratheon]

I'm trying to install GIT on Minix 3.1.8, but I am getting the following error:

I want to know why it is that I am getting this error and how I would go about fixing it. If there is a manual way to install GIT, instead, I would like to know, as well. 

*I am running Minix 3 on VM VirtualBox.

[Lionel Sambuc]

Hello Joffrey,


The git package was renamed in PKGSRC. 'git-base' is the new package
name for git. As you are using an older release of MINIX3, you will need
to use the old package name which is 'scmgit-base' iirc.

You can find out by doing the following:
$ pkgin available | grep git

You might as well want to do a 'pkgin available |more' to see which
packages are available on your MINIX3 release.


Regards,

Lionel

On 01/20/2015 09:16 PM, Joffrey Baratheon wrote:
> I'm trying to install GIT on Minix 3.1.8, but I am getting the
> following error:
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> I want to know why it is that I am getting this error and how I would
> go about fixing it. If there is a manual way to install GIT, instead,
> I would like to know, as well.
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> *I am running Minix 3 on VM VirtualBox.

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[Sambuc Lionel]

Hi again Joffrey,


I have reinstalled MINIX 3.1.8 in a virtual machine, to double check. I have bad news, it seems the package itself has been lost, but this is indeed scmgit-base.

From a very quick test – but no guarantees! – the 3.1.9 package seems to work on a 3.1.8 system.
You can install it by doing the following:
$ pkgin in $(pkgin av|cut -d ' ' -f 1)
$ pkg_add -f http://www.minix3.org/pkgsrc/packages/3.1.9/i386/All/scmgit-base*

I hope it helps. If you are interested, you can try to find the pkgsrc tree we used then, and rebuild git yourself.

If you are successful, I would be interested in the steps required to get there, and I will re-upload the package.


Regards,

Lionel

> On 20 janv. 2015, at 21:16, Joffrey Baratheon <abhishek...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm trying to install GIT on Minix 3.1.8, but I am getting the following error:
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> I want to know why it is that I am getting this error and how I would go about fixing it. If there is a manual way to install GIT, instead, I would like to know, as well.
>
> *I am running Minix 3 on VM VirtualBox.
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