Fix for Git error: “fatal: Unable to find remote helper for ‘http’”
This error is most commonly caused by Git being compiled without support for OpenSSL or Expatlibraries. The solution is to build Git yourself.
Step 1 - Install OpenSSL and Expat
On example on Red Hat / Fedora you can use this command:
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Step 2 - Build and install Git
Go get the latest Git source tarball (as of this writing it’s version 1.8.1).
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At this point, make sure you see following lines in the output:
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And now build and install Git:
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This is it. Now you should see no error complaining about missing remote helper for http.