Re: Install git package on Debian, could not run git

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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