I have followed all of the instructions for installing Git on Centos as per: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
This includes executing the following commands: sudo yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel \ openssl-devel zlib-devel and sudo yum install git-core The second command fails with: [sowens@loadgenerator73 ~]$ sudo yum install git-core Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package git.x86_64 0:1.7.1-3.el6_4.1 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: perl-Git = 1.7.1-3.el6_4.1 for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: perl(Error) for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: perl(Git) for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0)(64bit) for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package git.x86_64 0:1.7.1-3.el6_4.1 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0)(64bit) for package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 ---> Package perl-Error.noarch 1:0.17015-4.el6 will be installed ---> Package perl-Git.noarch 0:1.7.1-3.el6_4.1 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 (update) Requires: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0)(64bit) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest Yet my /usr/local/lib dir contains: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125718 Feb 28 11:11 libz.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 28 11:11 libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 28 11:11 libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98739 Feb 28 11:11 libz.so.1.2.7 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.