Multiple installed versions of git - centos

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I manually installed git 1.6 a year or two ago. I noticed today that the 1.7 version is available in yum, and installed it (package git-all) I now get the following output:

[root@ovz5197 ~]# git --version
bash: /usr/local/bin/git: No such file or directory
[root@ovz5197 ~]# which git
/usr/bin/git
[root@ovz5197 ~]# /usr/bin/git --version
git version 1.7.4.1
[root@ovz5197 ~]#

Any idea why the output of which seems to contradict the first line above?

I was tempted asking you for what your $PATH variable look like, but as which git is finding it, it should be ok. However, the reason might be in your $PATH? — Torbjörn, Sep 15 '11 at 15:26
What does ls -l /usr/local/bin/git show? And file /usr/local/bin/git? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Sep 16 '11 at 00:04

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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If you had already run git from this instance of bash back when there was a /usr/local/bin/git, it's remembering the old location in a cache. Run hash -r to clear the cache. Each instance of bash has its own cache, so newly started instances of bash will look in the right place.

Otherwise, you evidently have a file /usr/local/bin/git, and it's executable, but it doesn't work because its loader is not present on the system. See Getting "Not found" message when running a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system for a similar case.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Sep 16 '11 at 00:04

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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Yes it must have been a cache - the behaviour is as expected now, thanks very much for explaining! – EoghanM Sep 16 '11 at 11:30

Multiple installed versions of git - centos

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