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Updated installing.asc for Centos/Fedora
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book/01-introduction/sections/installing.asc

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@@ -73,19 +73,28 @@ For example, if you're on a system that has yum (such as Fedora) or apt-get (suc
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[source,console]
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$ sudo yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel \
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openssl-devel zlib-devel
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openssl-devel perl-devel zlib-devel
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$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext \
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libz-dev libssl-dev
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In order to be able to add the documentation in various formats (doc, html, info), these additional dependencies are required:
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In order to be able to add the documentation in various formats (doc, html, info), these additional dependencies are required (Note: users of RHEL and RHEL-derivatives like CentOS and Scientific Linux will have to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F[enable the EPEL repository] to download the `docbook2X` package):
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$ sudo yum install asciidoc xmlto docbook2x
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$ sudo yum install asciidoc xmlto docbook2X
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$ sudo apt-get install asciidoc xmlto docbook2x
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Additionally, if you're using Fedora/RHEL/RHEL-derivatives, you need to do this
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$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi /usr/bin/docbook2x-texi
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due to binary name differences.
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When you have all the necessary dependencies, you can go ahead and grab the latest tagged release tarball from several places.
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You can get it via the Kernel.org site, at https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git[], or the mirror on the GitHub web site, at https://github.com/git/git/releases[].
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It's generally a little clearer what the latest version is on the GitHub page, but the kernel.org page also has release signatures if you want to verify your download.

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