I am trying to install devtools in a R ami on an amazon ec2 instance. However, before devtools, I need to install some variation of a libgit2 library as a dependency. Given that the amazon distro is red hat, I've tried to install the libgit2-devel variation with the command
sudo yum install libgit2-devel
everytime i get a error message that the package is not available. I have no idea why this is happening.