install_pygit2_centos.sh

#!/bin/bash
# this will install everything as root, so take that into account before you run it

set -e

# need cmake, python development headers, ZLib and OpenSSL
sudo yum groupinstall "Development tools" -y
sudo yum install cmake zlib-devel openssl-devel http-parser-devel -y

root=`pwd`

git clone -b master --depth 1 git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git

cd libgit2

# instructions from http://libgit2.github.com/#install
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
make
sudo make install

export LIBGIT2="/usr/local"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath='$LIBGIT2/lib',--enable-new-dtags $LDFLAGS"
sudo -E pip install pygit2 -U

# avoid "cannot open shared object file" ImportErrors
sudo ldconfig  

# clean up after ourselves
cd $root
rm -rf libgit2


# now, from the python interpreter: 
# >>> from pygit2 import Repository
# if you don't get any errors, you're done!

python -c 'from pygit2 import Repository' && echo 'pygit2 installed.' || echo 'failed to install pytgit2'