cd ~ mkdir git cd git # Download the rpm from EPEL ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ) wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm # Extract binaries from the rpm rpm2cpio git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm | cpio -imdv rm git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm