Suse Enterprise 11 SP2 how to install git

Question

I've never had a problem installing git on any Linux distro, but now I'm forced to use a client's server which is SLES 11 SP2. It uses yast or zypper to do package management, which I've never used before. Apparently I should be able to zypper install git-core but that doesn't work because it needs a certain repo added. Of course none of this is on the official git installation page here.

I found what packages belong to the SLE11-SP2-SDK repo here. But no instructions on how to add the repo to yast or zypper.

I'll also accept an answer that simply tells me how to install git on a SLES server. I've already tried from source, but of course it's missing requirements which also belong to the SDK repo.

This is what I get when I do "zypper install git-core":

$ sudo zypper install git-core  Refreshing service 'nu_novell_com'. Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 'git-core' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. No provider of 'git-core' found. Resolving package dependencies...  Nothing to do. 

Answer 1

I figured it out, only by piecing together other info mainly from the OpenSUSE project. Basically it's:

$ sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/scm/SLE_11_SP2/devel:tools:scm.repo $ sudo zypper install git-core 

Answer 2

git is part of the SDK for SLES, which can be downloaded here:

http://download.novell.com (ideally for the currently used SP2)

Once you installed itm the zypper or yast commands work. It's not recommended to use openSUSE rpms within a SLES environment.