Quite easy really, once you know how. First we add in the Epel repo for 64bit Centos5 rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm and then you need to disableexcludes in yum due to Cpanel disabling Perl from yum updates. So to install git now, we run. yum –disableexcludes=main install git Simple, really.