Question

I have what I would call a “vanilla” install on Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS (downloaded and installed on the 15th) on Hyper-V.

All seems well with Ubuntu. Synthetic NIC is great. No issues detected.

My plan is to use it as a central GIT repository using Gitolite.

I have SSh correctly installed (at least I think it is because I can “ssh [e-mail]“.

The key was generated on my Mac in Terminal and copied up. That worked fine.

My problem is that when I attempt to install Gitolite I get the following error:

   No adminkey given - not setting up gitolite.

These are the commands I used to perform the install:

sudo apt-get install git-core
sudo apt-get install gitolite

I’ve also tried this:

sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo adduser \
  --system \
  --shell /bin/bash \
  --gecos 'git version control' \
  --group \
  --disabled-password \
  --home /home/git \
git

sudo apt-get install gitolite

…same result

Some version info:

Git core: 1:1.7.9.5-1
Gitolite: 2.2-1
Ubuntu: 12.04

Any ideas?
Does Gitolite actually run on Ubuntu 12.04?

Answer 1

I think the package may be broken.

You may be better off installing it from source.

Try following this tutorial:
http://www.bigfastblog.com/install-gitolite-to-manage-your-git-repositories

The official docs on the repo itself also recommend installing from source:
https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite