Installing ag: the silver searcher on CentOS.

InstallingAgOnCentOS.md

Installing ag on CentOS

Prerequistes

• libpcre
• liblzma

Download, build and install

$ sudo yum install -y pcre-devel

$ sudo yum install xz-devel

$ cd /usr/local/src

$ sudo git clone https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.git

$ cd the_silver_searcher

$ sudo ./build.sh

$ sudo make install

$ which ag
/usr/local/bin/ag