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Asked: 2026-06-16T04:06:20+00:00

It would seem I’ve installed git in the following directory: /root/bin/git (Not quite sure

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It would seem I’ve installed git in the following directory:

/root/bin/git

(Not quite sure how, to be honest.)

And therefore rendered git unaccessible to anybody other than the root user.

Can I simply move the files to /usr/bin (or similar) or do I have to uninstall and reinstall.

If uninstall is required, how should I do that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In many system $HOME/bin is put to $PATH using either .bashrc or /etc/bashrc. Thats why in your case only root can able to access git as its installed in roots home. But no one else.

    The only solution is to remove that git. Install git system wise.

    yum install git-core

    or 

    apt-get install git-core

    If git was installed in /root as prefix you might find usr, etc, lib etc directories in /root folder. Remove them too. Also make sure any other software didn’t get installed like git.

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