Building git from sources, missing getopt library on debian jessie

I'm following these instruction to build git from source: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

I get the error "Unable to find packge getopt", also after an apt update. Cannot find a package containing the library on debian packages archive.

Any idea on how to solve it?

I'm running it into a docker container:

from debian:latest

RUN apt-get update

# git installation

RUN apt-get install \
  dh-autoreconf \
  libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
  libexpat1-dev \
  gettext  \
  libz-dev \
  libssl-dev \
  asciidoc \
  xmlto \
  docbook2x \
  getopt

RUN wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.13.0.tar.gz -P /tmp/src/git \
  tar -zxf /tmp/src/git/v2.13.0.tar.gz -C /tmp/bin/git \
  cd /tmp/bin/git \
  make configure \
  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
  make all doc info \
  make install install-doc install-html install-info

zioMitch

Posted 2017-05-29T10:47:09.173

Reputation: 123

I did try those commands on a freshly install Debian Jessie, after the 6 packages being asked to install it works perfectly, do you get the unable during the configure step ? – Pierre-Alain TORET – 2017-05-29T12:40:32.347

I'm running it in a docker container. – zioMitch – 2017-05-30T05:36:21.153

Building git from sources, missing getopt library on debian jessie

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