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I am trying to install git-lfs package and it looks like expected paths are not Ubuntu friendly. From Downloads section of git-lfs I choose Linux AMD64 file name git-lfs-freebsd-amd64-1.2.1.tar.gz, because .deb files are not available for Ubuntu, just Debian 7,8.

I am getting error: install.sh: 19: install.sh: PATH+=:/usr/local/bin: not found when executing install.sh.

Does anyone have a working solution on how to install git-lfs?

muru
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Mike
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There are in fact .deb files at https://packagecloud.io/github/git-lfs?filter=debs that you can install; the link you visited also hinted at this by stating that "All packages are available on PackageCloud now."

In any case, if you visit https://git-lfs.github.com/, the simplest way to install git-lfs is to follow the instructions at https://packagecloud.io/github/git-lfs/install:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

Then, according to https://github.com/github/git-lfs/blob/master/INSTALLING.md#installing-packages, do

sudo apt-get install git-lfs

If you don't trust the source of script.deb.sh and are uncomfortable with running the script with sudo bash, you should definitely take a look at the script first.

edwinksl
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If anybody finds this thread from Google and is on a modern Ubuntu build (at least 21.04+), simply do sudo apt install git-lfs

Dr-Bracket
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I was looking for a way to install entirely from the command line (server/VM setup), and was able to do so by following the instructions from the documentation, copied below for reference.

  1. sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
  2. sudo curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash*
  3. sudo apt-get install git-lfs
  4. git lfs install

*The sudo in step 2 is my addition, and without it this step was failing silently. Maybe to do with my user permissions on the server? ymmv

ess
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I found my solution, the problem was executing install.sh using sh:

The correct way is sudo ./install.sh or sudo bash install.sh instead of sh install.sh.

Ben
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Mike
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As of 2024-12-17, the current version of git-lfs was v3.6.0. The version provided by Debian / Ubuntu is 9 months old, released 2024-02-28.

$ apt show git-lfs 2> /dev/null | grep 'Version:'
Version: 3.5.0-1

git-lfs now has good installation documentation, which uses their own PPA.

apt/deb repos:

$ curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

$ sudo apt install git-lfs

yum/rpm repos:

$ curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash

$ sudo yum install git-lfs
Mike Slinn
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