I have a non-root account on a Debian 9 (Stretch) System and I want to install Git.
Since the account does not have super-user privileges, Git can only be installed locally, as stated here.
Following the accepted answer, I downloaded and extracted the latest Git version in local home directory (~/) and then I enter the extracted Git folder like
$ cd git-2.33.1/
When I run
./configure --prefix=~/git-2.33.1/ && make && make install
I get ./configure: No such file or directory.
Is there anything I can do?
I also checked the README of git and when I run make I get fatal error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory #include <openssl/ssl.h>
This will be not very easy to have something working if dependencies are missing.
What you can do, download the .deb to get the last git version, you can find it https://debian.pkgs.org/11/debian-main-amd64/git_2.30.2-1_amd64.deb.html
For example:
cd /tmp
wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/git/git_2.30.2-1_amd64.deb
Then extract it
mkdir git
cd git
ar x ../git_2.30.2-1_amd64.deb
You will get
total 5.3M
drwxrwxr-x 2 john doe 4.0K Oct 29 21:31 ./
drwxrwxrwt 29 root root 16K Oct 29 21:31 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 john doe 16K Oct 29 21:31 control.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 john doe 5.3M Oct 29 21:31 data.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 john doe 4 Oct 29 21:31 debian-binary
Then extract the data part:
tar xvf data.tar.xz
and you get the binaries
╰┤suze ▶ ls -l usr/bin
total 4968
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john doe 3343280 Mar 10 2021 git*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john doe 3 Mar 10 2021 git-receive-pack -> git*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john doe 1733608 Mar 10 2021 git-shell*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john doe 3 Mar 10 2021 git-upload-archive -> git*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john doe 3 Mar 10 2021 git-upload-pack -> git*